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ALABAMA MEDICAL
V O L U M E 2 9 • N U M B E R O N E • W I N T E R 2 0 0 3
The Changing
Face of Medicine
Behind the Expansion of the UASOM
Scholar’s Week
Rounding Out the Medical Education
A Nursing Shortage
Attracting Applicants for Crucial Care
Physicians’ Forum
Medicare Reimbursements

Dean’s Corner
Dear Colleagues:
In this issue of the Medical Alumni Bulletin, we are proud to spotlight some of the most significant
and visible changes now underway at your University of Alabama School of Medicine—the expansions
of our physical facilities. Visitors can see first-hand the ongoing renovations of Volker Hall, the
establishment of our new world-class biotechnology facilities, and the growth of UASOM clinics and
research buildings in genetics, pediatrics, and women’s health. This growth is truly the cornerstone of
our push to reach the “Top 10 by 2010,” and we look forward to the advances and opportunities that
it will make possible.
Some of those advances and opportunities are already before us.
• We recently announced a new Department of Genetics, with esteemed geneticist Bruce R. Korf,
Ph.D., M.D., as its chair.
• UASOM scientist Beatrice Hahn, M.D., has earned international attention for her research into
HIV, most recently being recognized in Discover magazine as one of the top 50 women in science.
• The UASOM is taking on an increasingly important role in biodefense research in response to government
requests and initiatives.
• UASOM physicians continue to address the most pressing needs of the communities around us,
as seen in the work of Ed Partridge, M.D., and Mona Fouad, M.D., to reduce cancer mortality in
African-Americans.
These are only a few of the UASOM’s most recent accomplishments, and they are only the beginning
of what’s to come. They are the foundation upon which our future is being built.
Of course, the benefits of our growth extend beyond the walls of the UASOM. The economic impact
of UAB on the Birmingham area exceeded $2.5 billion in fiscal year 2001. The continued growth of the
UASOM will mean ever-increasing prestige and economic benefits for Alabama. Your support has farreaching
effects.
I draw your attention to one of our most prominent opportunities for support—the new medical education
tower at Volker Hall. This six-story academic tower will house all academic components of
UASOM-UAB, integrating classroom and hands-on training space with the latest communications technology.
There are many naming opportunities available for donors to the new medical education tower,
and I encourage you to leave your mark on the UASOM by supporting this critical element of our
growth. Please contact our development office at (205) 934-4469 for more information.
My best to you.
Sincerely,
William B. Deal, M.D.
Vice President for Medicine and Dean
On the Cover: Bricks and mortar—along with hard work and your support—are essential ingredients in the
growth of the University of Alabama School of Medicine.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
T. Riley Lumpkin, M.D., ’58 - Tuscaloosa
President-Elect
Betty W. Vaughn, M.D., ’63 - Decatur
Secretary/Treasurer
Alan R. Dimick, M.D., ’58 - Birmingham
Past President
J. Max Austin, Jr., M.D., ’67 - Birmingham
The Caduceus Club President
E. Lamar Thomas, M.D., ’63, Birmingham
District Vice Presidents
William R. Staggers, M.D., ’89 - Fairhope
Karen M. Landers, M.D., ’77 - Tuscumbia
J. Noble Anderson, M.D., ’89 - Montgomery
Neil E. Christopher, M.D., ’58 - Guntersville
Helen R. Thrasher, M.D., ’63 - Birmingham
Jarvis D. Ryals, M.D., ’65 - Pueblo, CO
Katherine R. Cooper, M.D., ’90 - Alexander City
Michael G. Poist, M.D., ’87 - Tuscaloosa
James S. Woodard, M.D., ’85 - Columbus, MS
House Staff Representative
Allen N. Gustin, Jr., M.D. - Birmingham
Senior Class President
Darren Malone - Birmingham
Vice President and Dean
William B. Deal, M.D. - Birmingham
Executive Secretary
Elaine Chambless - Birmingham
Administrative Secretary
Donna F. Thompson
Office Staff
Diane W. Bennett
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Table of Contents •Winter 2003 Issue
News Briefs .............................................................................................................................. 2
School News, Faculty News, Research & Clinical News
Cover Story: The Changing Face of Medicine ................................................................... 6
Behind the Expansion of the UASOM
Scholar’s Week ..................................................................................................................... 10
Rounding Out the Medical Education
The Art of Admissions ......................................................................................................... 11
A New Director’s Plans for Progress
A Nursing Shortage ...............................................................................................................12
Attracting Applicants for Crucial Care
Big Issues on the Small Screen ..........................................................................................14
On the Line with Wick Many, M.D.
Collaboration for a Cause ....................................................................................................14
Focusing on Cancer in Minorities
An Anniversary for AOA .......................................................................................................15
Celebrating a Century of Honors
Physicians’ Forum .................................................................................................................16
The Impact of Changing Medicare Reimbursements
Student Rounds ....................................................................................................................18
Should the Match Be Abolished?
The Campaign for UAB ........................................................................................................ 20
Letter from John Lankford • Major Contributors and Dean’s Partners Reception • Funderburg
Reception • Profile of Edward Bailey • Profile of Kirby Bland, M.D.
Honors Convocation .............................................................................................................24
Honors and Awards for 2001-2002
The Caduceus Club Travel Fellowship Report ..................................................................26
OB/GYN Elective at BJ Medical College, Pune, India
Alumni Profile....................................................................................................................... 28
Carden Johnston, M.D.
Alumni Profile ...................................................................................................................... 29
Barry Wilson, M.D.
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS ........................................................................................ 30
Class Notes • Donor List
From the Archives ............................................................................................................... 40
Looking Back on the Growth of the UASOM
CME Calendar ........................................................................................................ Back Cover
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UNIVERSITY NEWS
Economic Impact
of UAB Tops $2.5 Billion
The economic impact of UAB on the
surrounding community reached a record high
of $2.5 billion for fiscal year 2001. Since 1998,
the overall impact increased by an estimated
30 percent, by Roger or nearly Shuler $600 and Shane million, Ivey according
to the 2002 Economic Impact Report
prepared by the UAB Department of Finance,
Economics, and Quantitative Methods.
“This is an incredible achievement, especially
when you consider that state funding—even with
the 2.6 percent budget increase for the coming fiscal
year—still lags behind the pre-proration budget
of 2000,” says UA System Chancellor Malcolm
Portera, Ph.D. “UAB’s state allocation this year is
$206 million. With an economic impact of $2.5
billion, that means UAB returns eleven dollars for
every dollar the state invests in it.”
As the largest employer in the metropolitan
area, UAB generates 53,018 full-time equivalent
jobs—jobs that the presence of UAB creates
both within the university and the community.
“It means UAB is responsible for creating
one of every 10 jobs in the Birmingham
area, as well as nearly three of every 100 in
Alabama,” says study author S. D. Lee, Ph.D.,
UAB professor of economics.
The study also found that 85 percent of
UAB faculty and staff reside within the
Birmingham metro area, contributing $341
million in spending to the local economy. In
addition, spending by UAB retirees, students,
and visitors contributes some $356.9 million.
Revenues to local governments from university-related
influences, including taxes and fees,
were estimated at $102 million.
Building Renamed to Honor Whitaker
The administration building of the
University of Alabama Health Services
Foundation (UAHSF) has been renamed to
honor the late John N. Whitaker, M.D., former
chair of neurology at UAB. Whitaker was
also a three-term president of the Health
Services Foundation, serving from 1992 until
his death last year as a result of injuries sustained
in a cycling event.
The building, formerly known as the 500
Administration Building, is located at 500
22nd Street South. It will now be known as the
John N. Whitaker Building.
Whitaker joined the UAB faculty in 1985 as
professor of neurology and chairman of the
department. He was a very active clinician,
teacher, and scientific investigator, specializing
in demyelinating diseases. He was instrumental
in developing several major programs at UAB,
including the Epilepsy Center, the Alzheimer’s
Disease Center, the Parkinson’s Disease Center,
and the Comprehensive Stroke Center.
Kirklin Clinic Celebrates a Birthday
In June 2002, The Kirklin Clinic® celebrated
3,651,000 patient visits in 10 years
of service.
“TKC’s success bears witness to excellent customer
service, quality of care, access—and,
most notably, the hard work and dedication of
the physicians and staff,” says University of
Alabama Health Services Foundation (UAHSF)
President Anton J. Bueschen, M.D.
Bueschen particularly acknowledged the role
and contributions of John W. Kirklin, M.D.,
founder and long-time UAHSF president,
whose vision made TKC a reality. Dick D.
Briggs, Jr., M.D., also was recognized for serving
as president during TKC’s construction
phase and opening.
UASOM Establishes Research Training
and Career Development Core
The UASOM Office of Program Planning
and Educational Research announced the
establishment of a Research Training and
Career Development Core. This centralized
service is designed to foster career development
among UASOM postdoctoral researchers, clinical
fellows, and junior faculty by providing
technical grant-writing support and heightening
awareness of submission requirements for
extramural grant applications. The core also
gathers and shares information on the institutional
environment and resources and on educational
offerings concerning the responsible
conduct of research.
Nursing Enrollment is on the Rise
The University of Alabama School of
Nursing at UAB reports a 50 percent increase in
the number of new students enrolled this year.
Rachel Z. Booth, Ph.D., dean of the School
of Nursing, says the recent increase reflects a
repetitive cycle. “Every few years, it reaches a
low then starts up again. While we are on the
upswing, the most recent decline was far more
serious than any we’ve seen in the past.”
Nationally, nursing schools are experiencing
slight increases in enrollment following a
six-year period of decline, according to the
American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
While the increase signals a flux of registered
nurses entering the field in a few years,
it isn’t likely to correct the trend in growing
nurse shortages. “The latest statistics project a
shortfall of more than one million new nurses
by 2010,” says Booth. “The forecast, based on
anticipated health conditions and an increasing
demand for health care, isn’t likely to be
affected by this boost in student enrollment.”
Adult Heart Patients In New Home
UAB's Cardiovascular Surgical Services has
moved its adult patients to a new home. The
newly renovated S-5 SOUTH unit of CV
Surgery boasts 22 new private rooms, including
10 family suites complete with family living
areas furnished with sleeper sofas, TVs, VCRs,
refrigerators and microwaves. All 22 private
rooms feature larger bathrooms with sit-in
showers and decorating touches mimicking the
feel of a luxury hotel.
The new unit will be home to adults who
have just undergone cardiac surgery, including
those receiving heart transplants.
The unit is designed to help patients and
their families feel more comfortable while in
the hospital and to reduce depression common
in most post-surgery heart patients. It also will
house a physical therapy and cardiac-rehabilitation
room.
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FACULTY NEWS
Korf to Chair Department of Genetics
Harvard physician and researcher Bruce R.
Korf, M.D., Ph.D., was appointed chair of
UAB’s Department of Genetics, effective January
1, 2003. He holds the Wayne H. Finley and Sara
Crews Finley Chair of Medical Genetics.
Before coming to UAB, Korf was medical
director of the Harvard-Partners Center for
Genetics, a program devoted to integrating
genetics into medical practice for all Harvardaffiliated
hospitals in Boston. He was associate
professor of neurology at Harvard Medical
School and directed Harvard’s postdoctoral
training in medical and laboratory genetics.
His clinical interests are in the areas of neurogenetics
and molecular diagnostics, and he has
devoted much of his research career to the
study of neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder
that causes tumors of the nervous system. He is
president of the Association of Professors of
Human and Medical Genetics and was a
founding fellow of that organization.
Hahn Named One of Top Women in Science
Beatrice Hahn, M.D., professor of medicine
and microbiology, has been named one of the
top 50 most important women in science by
Discover magazine. Among her many credits as
a world-renowned AIDS researcher, Hahn led
an international team of scientists in discovering
the origin of HIV-1. That finding,
announced in 1999, identified a subspecies of
chimpanzee in West-Central Africa as the natural
reservoir of the virus. In January 2002, her
research team announced the discovery of an
SIV-infected chimpanzee living in the wild in
West Africa, a finding that allows researchers
now to explore the history and behavior of SIV
in its natural host and to begin to determine
how and why the virus jumped to humans.
Discover recognized Hahn and other top female
scientists in its November 2002 issue.
Curcio Wins Macular Degeneration Prize
Christine Curcio, Ph.D., professor of ophthalmology
at UAB, has been named the recipient of
the first Roger H. Johnson Macular Degeneration
Prize. The prize, established by Roger Johnson,
M.D., clinical professor emeritus of ophthalmology
at the University of Washington, is intended
to stimulate clinical and basic science research
into causes and treatments for age-related macular
degeneration, the leading cause of untreatable
vision loss in the elderly.
Curcio received a cash prize of $40,000 and
delivered the Roger H. Johnson Macular
Degeneration Lecture at the University of
Washington. The prize will fund equipment in
her laboratory to study cholesterol processing and
release by the retinal pigment epithelium in vitro.
Vickers Named to NIH Committee
Selwyn M. Vickers, M.D., associate professor
of surgery and chief of gastrointestinal surgery at
UAB, has been named to the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) National Center on Minority
Health and Health Disparities’ (NCMHD)
National Advisory Council. Established in
1993, the NCMHD’s mission is to promote
minority health and to lead, coordinate, support,
and assess the NIH’s efforts to reduce, and
ultimately eliminate, health disparities.
Endowed Professorship
Named for Dismukes
UAB has established an endowed professorship
in the name of William E. Dismukes,
M.D., in honor of his accomplishments and
long service to the university. Dismukes is professor
and director of the Division of Infectious
Diseases in UAB’s Department of Medicine.
Dismukes is also vice chair of the Department
of Medicine and has directed the Internal
Medicine Residency Training Program since
1981. The endowment will be used to support
the activities of the residency training program.
Bland Appointed to Kerner Chair
Kirby I. Bland, M.D., chairman of the UAB
Department of Surgery, has been appointed to
hold the Fay Fletcher Kerner Chair of Surgery.
Bland is an Alabama native who received his
undergraduate degree from Auburn University
and his medical degree from UAB. He is
renowned as a cancer surgeon and an author of
textbooks, including one on surgical treatment
of breast disease.
Kirkpatrick Named
to Orthopedic Positions
John S. Kirkpatrick, M.D., associate professor
of surgery and of engineering at UAB, has been
appointed to positions with the American
Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS).
Kirkpatrick was named chairman of the
AAOS’s biomedical engineering committee, with
responsibility to review and monitor scientific
regulatory developments. He also was selected
for the AAOS Leadership Fellows Program,
which prepares young members to assume roles
of responsibility within the organization.
He already serves on the orthopedic and
rehabilitation devices panel of the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration, and he is on the editorial
board of the American Journal of
Orthopaedics and the Journal of the Southern
Orthopaedic Association.
Kirkpatrick, who specializes in diseases and
injuries of the spine, is director of the
Birmingham Veterans’ Administration biomechanics
laboratory and serves on the faculty of
the UAB Injury Control and Research Center.
Microbiology Group Elects Elson
Charles O. Elson III, M.D., professor of
medicine and microbiology at UAB, has been
elected to Fellowship in the American
Academy of Microbiology (AAM).
Elson is widely respected for his research
into cholera toxin and inflammatory bowel disease.
Only 1,700 scientists have been elected to
the AAM in its 47-year history.
The AAM is the honorific leadership group
within the American Society for Microbiology,
the world’s oldest life science organization with
more than 43,000 members.
Radiology Chair Honors Witten, Stanley
The UAB Department of Radiology
endowed chair has been named for David M.
Witten, M.D., and Robert J. Stanley, M.D.,
the department’s two most recent chairmen.
The chair, created in 1987, will be known as the
Witten-Stanley Endowed Chair of Radiology.
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Research &
Clinical News
UAB Receives First
NIH Brain SPORE Grant
UAB has received one of the first two
Specialized Programs of Research Excellence
(SPORE) grants awarded by the National
Cancer Institute (NCI) for brain cancer research.
The 5-year, $13-million grant is part of an NCI
program to accelerate the translation of laboratory
findings into therapeutic applications.
With the addition of the brain cancer
SPORE, UAB and its Comprehensive Cancer
Center now hold three of the prestigious
SPORE grants. Only two other institutions in
the nation hold more; Johns Hopkins
University has five SPORE grants, and M.D.
Anderson Cancer Center has four. The
University of California at San Francisco
received the other brain SPORE.
Researching Biodefense
UAB is joining the Southeastern Center for
Biodefense and Emerging Infections, a
regional biodefense research consortium that
also includes Duke University, the University
of North Carolina, Vanderbilt University, and
the University of Florida.
UAB is also collaborating with Southern
Research Institute to reopen a high-security
Birmingham lab to safely handle dangerous
pathogens.
Cancer Screening
Study: Spiral CT or X-Ray?
Two methods of detecting lung cancer will
be compared in clinical studies at UAB and 29
other centers across the nation. The National
Lung Screening Trial (NLST) seeks to show if
either spiral CT scanning or the standard chest
X-ray is better at reducing deaths from this
disease; the study will also examine the risks
and benefits from both modes of diagnosis.
Grant Funds Study
of Teen-Mom Parenting Skills
Robin Gaines Lanzi, M.P.H., Ph.D., developmental
scientist with the Civitan
International Research Center and the
Department of Neurobiology, has received a
five-year, $420,390 grant from the National
Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD). The prestigious
Mentored Research Scientist Developmental
Award will support Lanzi’s research on improving
the lives of at-risk children and families.
Lanzi’s grant will focus on how certain
aspects of adolescent development may affect
parenting skills. Depression and social support
are also factors her research team will
explore.
Lanzi’s grant builds upon a recently funded
NIH multi-center study to assess the parenting
skills of first-time teen moms. Overall,
NICHD will award sites nearly $6 million over
the next five years. UAB will receive $942,000.
Angina Patients May
Not Experience Chest Pain
It may be time to redefine the classic definition
of unstable angina—which, according
to most medical textbooks, is usually associated
with chest pain—particularly since UAB’s
latest study, led by UAB cardiologist John
Canto, M.D., shows that nearly one half of
more than 4,000 elderly Medicare patients
diagnosed with unstable angina did not experience
any chest pain at all.
The study, which was published in the
August 1 issue of the Journal of American
Cardiology, examines the symptoms that angina
patients experienced when chest pain was not
present. Among patients with confirmed angina,
51.7 percent had atypical presentations
and 45 percent had no chest pain at all. The
most frequent symptoms associated with
atypical presentation were shortness of breath
(69.4 percent); pain localized to other areas
besides the chest region, such as the arms,
upper stomach, shoulder, and neck; nausea
(37.7 percent); heavy sweating (25.2 percent);
and fainting spells (10.6 percent).
“It is clear that a large portion of patients are
not experiencing what has long been considered
the hallmark symptom. If unrecognized and
untreated, unstable angina can very quickly
progress to heart attack. And if we don’t recognize
it, we can’t treat it,” Canto says.
Living Donors Boost Transplant Survival
The Wall Street Journal recently listed UAB
among the five busiest kidney transplant centers
in the country for the 30-month period
ending June 30, 2001. UAB’s survival rate for
602 transplants was 98.27 percent, the highest
of the five.
Mark Deierhoi, M.D., director of transplantation,
says kidney donations by living
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persons have risen sharply since the introduction
of laparoscopic kidney removal, a minimally-invasive
procedure. Deierhoi credits the
increased number of live donors with the high
transplant survival rate, since the kidney from
a live donor is healthier than one from a
cadaver and the physicians have a more complete
medical history of the donor.
Cataracts and Car Crashes
Older drivers with cataracts who have cataract
surgery have a lower risk of being in an automobile
crash compared to those who do not,
according to UAB research published August 21
in the Journal of the American Medical
Association. “Treating chronic diseases and conditions
that cause functional impairments, such
as cataract, could prove to have widespread benefit
to driver safety in our society,” says Cynthia
Owsley, Ph.D., professor of ophthalmology.
UAB Study Unveils
New Findings on Viruses
New findings by UAB researchers Sean
Whelan, Ph.D., and Gail Wertz, Ph.D., provide
a better understanding of how certain
viruses cause infection. “We have learned that
the point at which the key protein involved in
decoding the genetic information of these
viruses enters the viral genome to begin transferring
its genetic code, and the point at
which it enters to begin replicating to produce
more virus, are different,” says Wertz, professor
of microbiology. “Understanding this
basic principle is essential to learning how
these viruses cause disease and how to prevent
or control the process.”
Details of the study were recently published
in the journal Proceedings of the National
Academy of Science, and Wertz presented the
findings at the 21st Annual Meeting of the
American Society for Virology, in Lexington,
Kentucky, in July 2002.
PET-CT Imaging:
UAB Introduces New Technology
UAB has intalled the first combined
positron emission tomography/computed
tomography (PET-CT) scanner in Alabama,
and the first to be installed in a university
medical center in the southeastern United
States. The new technology brings patients a
faster and more accurate method of diagnosing
several types of cancers, heart diseases, and

News Briefs
brain disorders. The combined scanner provides
extremely high sensitivity and specificity
for cancer detection, says James M. Mountz,
M.D., director of nuclear medicine, because
the PET portion identifies if a cancer is present
and the CT portion shows if there is any
abnormality in the soft tissues of the body. The
combined PET-CT images display color overlays
of the location of cancerous regions on the
CT scan to provide precise identification and
localization of cancer.
Gene Therapy for Hearts
UAB cardiologists are participating in a
nationwide gene therapy trial to determine
whether experimental gene therapy can stimulate
angiogenesis, the growth of new blood
vessels in the heart. The study, which uses a
modified adinovirus to deliver a gene that has
been found to stimulate the growth of new
vessels, will examine whether angiogenesis can
relieve angina in patients who have not been
helped by other standard therapies.
Making a Critical Connection
The risk factors for heart disease are well
known—smoking, high blood pressure, high
cholesterol—but UAB researchers are looking
at clinical depression as another potential risk
factor for the disease.
Recent evidence indicates that depression
may increase the risk of heart attack among
men, and the risk of patients having a second
heart attack, says Andree Stoves, M.D., UAB
assistant professor of psychiatry.
Stoves says one possible connection is that
patients diagnosed with depression often have
increased activity of blood platelets. Increased
platelet activity may increase the likelihood of
clotting, which could contribute to heart
attack. “We’ve discovered that the class of
antidepressant medication known as selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI’s) seems
to control platelet activity in depressed
patients,” says Stoves.
Assessing Sports-Related Concussions
Each year, about 10 percent of athletes who
play collision sports such as football, hockey, or
soccer suffer a concussion after a jarring injury
to the brain. Most are mild, but the risk of serious,
permanent damage increases if the brain
suffers a second injury while still recovering
from the first.
The challenge for trainers, medical staff, and
coaches has always been how to determine
when a player can safely return to the playing
field. UAB’s new Sports-Related Concussion
Clinic uses a computerized assessment program
called ImPACT to help make that determination.
ImPACT (Immediate Post-Concussion
Assessment and Cognitive Testing) is a computer
test that measures individual player’s cognitive
processing speed, reaction time, memory,
and visual motor skills.
New Drug Targets Brain Cancer
Brain surgeons at UAB and City of Hope
in Los Angeles are treating patients suffering
from glioma, one of the most deadly forms of
brain cancer, with an investigational new drug
called 131I-TM-601, being developed by
TransMolecular, Inc., a Birmingham-based
neuroscience biotechnology company.
The drug is a radiopharmaceutical containing
a synthetic version of a substance derived
from scorpions, called chlorotoxin. The multicenter
study will evaluate the safety and tolerability
of a single dose of 131I-TM-601, as
well as overall tumor response rate in the initial
study group of 18 patients.
In preclinical studies, TransMolecular scientists
determined that 131I-TM-601 was
able to extend survival in a mouse model that
mimicked human brain tumors. TM-601,
based on chlorotoxin sequences, has been
shown to be nontoxic in animal studies.
Raising Awareness for Rett Syndrome
UAB pediatric neurologist Alan Percy,
M.D., recently joined actress Julia Roberts in
an appearance before Congress to jump-start
interest in the little known neurodevelopmental
disorder Rett Syndrome.
Percy, one of the leading experts in the
country on the disease, testified with Roberts
before the Congressional Subcommittee on
Labor, Health, and Human Services, saying
that while remarkable progress has been made
in understanding Rett Syndrome since it was
first described in 1966, the disease is still very
much a mystery.
Rett Syndrome is a childhood disorder characterized
by normal early development followed
by loss of purposeful use of the hands,
distinctive hand movements, slowed brain and
head growth, gait abnormalities, seizures, and
mental retardation. Afflicting females exclusively,
it affects one in every 10,000 to 15,000
live female births.
Percy specializes in managing the disease
through UAB’s Rett Syndrome Clinic, one of
only three comprehensive clinics dedicated to
the disease in the United States. Patients from
around the country travel to UAB for treatment
and evaluation.
The Benefits of Obesity Surgery
Patients who elect to undergo minimally
invasive gastric bypass surgery for morbid
obesity not only achieve significant and longterm
weight loss, but their problems with gastroesophageal
reflux, abdominal pain, and
other symptoms of gastrointestinal distress
improve, according to Ronald H. Clements,
M.D., UAB gastrointestinal surgeon.
Clements compared patients’ symptoms to
those of a group of people who were not dangerously
overweight. “After surgery, these
symptoms essentially returned to normal;
their symptoms are no more troublesome
than in the controls,” he says.
Improving Detection of Ovarian Cancer
The UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center is
offering free screening blood tests in an
attempt to identify a way to find ovarian cancer
in its earlier stages. The tests are part of the
Risk of Ovarian Cancer Algorithm (ROCA)
program, sponsored by the National Cancer
Institute and conducted at major cancer treatment
programs across the country. ROCA
will help determine whether a common ovarian
cancer screening blood test, CA125, is
helpful in the early detection of the disease.
“Women have a better chance of surviving
ovarian cancer when it is found early,” says
Mona Fouad, M.D., a preventive medicine
professor at UAB and an investigator for the
study. “When the disease is found at a late
stage, it is hard to treat. If we can find a
screening test, many more tumors would be
found earlier, and many more women would
be cured.”
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The
Changing
Face of
Medicine
Behind the Expansion
of the UASOM
By Shane Ivey
Let’s take a snapshot: the University of Alabama
School of Medicine at UAB . . . in the year 2010.
No, you don’t see flying cars over every corner or
android assistants in every office. But you do see a medical
research center among the top 10 in the country, a peerless
health system, and one of the most competitive medical
schools in the world.
In our snapshot, some of the university’s most prominent
buildings are only a few years old. There’s the Richard
M. and Annette C. Shelby Interdisciplinary Research
Building, with research faculty from across the School of
Medicine. There’s Biomedical Research Building II, with
its world-renowned research on oxygen free radicals and
human gene therapy. There’s the renovated Volker Hall,
serving both as an attractive “front door” for the School of
Medicine and as a world-class research facility in its
own right. And let’s not overlook the Hugh
Kaul Human Genetics Building and the
Center for Women’s Research, nearing their
tenth anniversaries, or the pediatric research
group in Children’s Harbor at the Alabama
Children’s Hospital. The list of news-making
research and clinical facilities goes on and on.
Unprecedented Expansions
Back here in 2003, the UASOM has undertaken
unprecedented expansions to make that
snapshot a reality. Most alumni and friends of
the school are familiar with the goal of the
Dean’s Office for the school to be one of the
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top 10 medical schools in NIH
research funding by 2010: “Top 10 by
2010.” The expansion of the school’s
physical facilities is the most important
and tangible step toward that goal.
The school administration expects
every field of research and education
to benefit from the expansion, says
Allen Bolton, associate dean for
administration and finance, and it
expects the economic impact on the
city and state to be substantial. But it
will take careful planning, skillful
administration, and the active support
of individuals and groups who wish to
see the school reach its goals.
The plan calls for the school to double
its usual faculty growth rate over a
period of several years, adding more
than 200 new faculty members by
2008, says Bolton. The school’s typical
growth rate is about the same as many
schools in the Top 10, he explains, so
this short-term boost will have a longterm
impact. By recruiting aggressively
now, the school will have the faculty
in place for the projects and accomplishments
that will move it into the
Top 10.
Expanded facilities will make that
growth possible, drawing more
research grants and helping attract
high-caliber faculty by offering a significant,
tangible advantage over
many institutions: research space.
“Our ratio of square footage to faculty
members is greater than that of
many other top medical centers,” says
Bolton. That space allows a researcher
more flexibility and resources than
might be found elsewhere.”
Interdisciplinary Innovations
The new facilities exemplify another
important goal of the expansion—
building synergy among diverse fields
of research. As a truly interdisciplinary
research center, for example, the
Shelby building will bring together
elements of many different departments
that ordinarily work separately.
Its neuroscience facilities may house
researchers in neurobiology, neurology,
physical medicine, physiology, and
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psychiatry. The immunology space
will involve clinical immunologists
and rheumatology researchers. The
biomechanics facilities will offer
research space for pathologists and
engineers. “We’ll take research interests
and group those people together,
regardless of where they come from,”
says Bolton. “That’s going to open up
some exciting possibilities.”
The Hugh Kaul Human Genetics
Building, constructed in 2001, is
another example of the school’s goals
of bringing research disciplines
together and translating that research
to clinical care. Built to treat more
than 12,000 patients a year, it also
serves as a home for research into the
genetic bases of conditions such as
sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis,
AIDS, schizophrenia, heart disease,
and diabetes. In fact, the growth of the
Kaul Building serves as a perfect
example of the goals of the UASOM’s
expansion—it made possible the
recent high-profile recruitment of
Bruce R. Korf, M.D., Ph.D., as chair
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The Center for Research in Women’s
Health, also built in 2001, likewise combines
the research of disciplines from
across the university, including the
UASOM, the School of Health-Related
Professions, the School of Dentistry, and
the School of Public Health. The center
houses programs and initiatives involving
perinatal research, cancer prevention
and control, newborn follow-up, study
of developmental disabilities, and genitourinary
and postmenopausal issues,
with a particular focus on minority and
underserved populations.
The increased prominence of the
school’s faculty and research will, in turn,
make it increasingly competitive for
prospective medical students. The new
facilities in Volker Hall are being built
for small, student-focused classes.
“Medical school curricula have moved in
recent years from large-group lectures to
small-group sections,” says Bolton.
“We’re building the new space to accommodate
that change.” And, like much of
the university, Volker Hall will be wired
for high-performance Internet2 access.
immunology and drug discovery, says
Richard Marchase, Ph.D., senior associate
dean for biomedical research: “There
is $1.75 billion in new funds available in
response to bioterrorism. Responding to
that initiative is going to require recruitment
and investment.”
That focus happens to fit the ongoing
research of the UASOM. “One of the
areas we had targeted for expansion had
to do with mucosal immunology and
immunobiology,” says Marchase. “We
will be applying for funding as a center
for biodefense and emerging infections.”
Marchase expects UASOM researchers
to engage in research both on campus and
Fields of the Future
The expanded facilities will enable the
UASOM to meet tomorrow’s demands,
both the expected and the unexpected.
With the increased threat of terrorism,
there is a greatly increased emphasis on
in conjunction with Southern Research
Institute (SRI). “We are not defining a
large amount of space to be set aside strictly
for biodefense work,” he says, “but we’ll
have laboratories in all of our buildings
that will house biodefense investigators.
And we will likely do some joint ventures
with SRI, with UAB researchers conducting
secure research on the SRI campus.”
Marchase says it is hard to predict
what other directions UASOM research
will take, but many fields are likely to see
expansion. There has been substantial
investment in cardiovascular biology, for
instance, which may lead to the formation
of a group of heart physiology
researchers in the Tinsley Harrison
Building when its biomedical researchers
move to the new Shelby Building.
“The neurosciences will also continue
to expand rapidly and require more
research space,” he adds. “It’s also possible
that we’ll make an investment in
research into structural approaches to
medicine, using techniques such as highresolution
electron microscopy, or mass
spectrometry, or biophysical techniques
to look at proteins.”
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In every case, though, the school is
committed to continuing to bring
researchers together across disciplines
to tackle specific issues. “We will be
trying to put together investigators
who will work on a particular disease,
affiliated because of shared research
interests rather than being segregated
strictly by department,” Marchase
says. “We want them grouped together
in the most productive way.”
Looking to Alumni
Naturally, long-term progress comes
with a price. The renovation and
expansion of Volker Hall will cost $40
million, $10 million of which the
school hopes to raise in private support.
The new medical education
office tower, a six-story project being
built to house UASOM faculty and
staff, will cost $13 million. The Shelby
Building (which “will dwarf any other
project that we’ve done,” says Bolton)
will cost more than $100 million. All
told, the UASOM seeks $240 million
in support from private, corporate,
and foundation sources—more than
$222 million of which was raised by
October 2002.
Continuing private support, especially
from alumni, is critical to reaching
the UASOM’s goals, says John
Lankford, Ph.D., senior director of
development. Many donors and philanthropists
will give once to support or recognize a particular
physician; fewer are willing to support a medical
school in its own right, especially on an ongoing
basis, he says. “Buildings are the hardest to raise
money for. Donors often prefer to put their money
into people. With people, they can talk to them
occasionally, go to lunch with them, or see how
they’re doing. A building just sits there and doesn’t
even talk to you! So bricks-and-mortar fundraising
is the toughest.”
Attracting institutional supporters specifically to
the UASOM can be a challenge, too, says
Lankford, with other schools and universities in
the state competing for those dollars.
Many high-profile universities—the Ivy League
universities, for instance—began as private institutions
and have always relied on private support.
UAB and the UASOM began as government-supported
institutions and do not have the same networks
of private support.
But there are concrete reasons for supporting the
physical expansion of the UASOM, says Lankford:
the physicians and scientists whose work depend on
them. “When you support Volker Hall, you’re creating
an environment for medical students to learn in,
become physicians, and begin careers in medicine.
When you support Biomed II, you’re supporting
researchers who are trying to cure cancer.”
And the clinical and educational missions of the
UASOM will grow, too, says Bolton. “If we
achieve ‘Top 10’ status by 2010, the quality of
teaching and patient care will increase. We’re not
doing one at the expense of another. If our reputation
soars, patients are going to want to come here,
even more than they do now, and students are
going to want to train here. That’s what we’re
counting on.”
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SCHOLAR’S WEEK
Rounding Out the Medical Education
By Shane Ivey
Nathan Smith, M.D., assistant dean and director of admissions, and
chair-elect of the Medical Education Committee, helped create Scholar’s
Week when he was chair of the Integrated Medical Sciences subcommittee
(IMS). Smith says departments not covered by a full clerkship, such as
radiology or ophthalmology, can offer a Scholar’s Week course to give students
a sense of their specialties. “It’s an opportunity to give students at
least a brief introduction to those areas of medicine.”
Courses may also be developed by departments or individual faculty members
interested in helping students explore new aspects of medicine or medical
practice. A faculty member in the Department of Medicine, for instance,
recently offered “Spirituality, the Doctor-Patient Relationship, and Health,”
meant to explore the relevance of a patient’s spiritual beliefs to his or her treatment;
and faculty in the Department of Psychiatry offered “Web-Based
Psychopharmacology.”
Students are also allowed to develop their own Scholar’s Week courses,
tailoring study time to their personal educational or professional goals.
When a student is interested in developing a personal Scholar’s Week activity,
Weaver sends a template for the student to fill out and return for review.
While they only account for about 20 per cent of Scholar’s Week programs,
most such proposals are approved.
Scholar’s Week gives students a unique chance to explore the specialties.
From left: Hughes Evans, M.D., Ph.D. (associate professor, pediatrics),
Ross Davis (class of 2003), Cheri Canon, M.D. (assistant professor, diagnostic
radiology), and Erin Snyder (class of 2003).
UASOM students have had an unusual educational opportunity in recent
years—Scholar’s Week, a program taken once in their third year and once or
twice in their fourth. With such courses as “Business Aspects of Private
Practice,” “Emergency Radiology,” “Ophthalmology: Trauma and Emergent
Care,” and dozens of others, Scholar’s Week is a way for SOM departments to
encourage interest in their specialties, and for students to deepen their understanding
of particular subjects, study new concepts, and broaden their clinical
or research experience.
Scheduling Scholarship
Scholar’s Week activities vary widely from course to course. Bill Weaver,
Ph.D., is assistant dean for curriculum development and management and
coordinator of Scholar’s Week activities. “Some are very clinically oriented,”
says Weaver, “and faculty may ask the students to observe them doing
patient work-ups. Others may be more research-oriented, with faculty giving
lectures on an area of a discipline, then assigning readings and maybe
having students come to a clinic.”
In every case, though, students should expect in-depth and hands-on training
and experience; each Scholar’s Week program is an educational course for
academic credit. Clinical activities involve more than simply “shadowing” a
physician, and research-oriented activities involve more than simply attending
classes. The programs may also be taken for honors credit, usually involving
completion of a written paper or some other project.
Most Scholar’s Week courses are developed by faculty and made available
for students to sign up—but there are often more students interested
in a course than space available. A computer program (SWISH, for
Scholar’s Week Institutional Scheduling Helper) randomly assigns students
to courses from lists of each student’s preferences.
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Unexpected Opportunities
Smith says one early concern with Scholar’s Week was the quality of the
courses—that a one-week program might not be sufficient to provide a
meaningful introduction to a new department or a specific issue in medicine.
But the concern diminished, he says, once it became apparent which
courses and subjects were drawing the most interest and getting the best student
evaluations. “Once the students started participating,” he says, “they
became part of the quality control.”
Scholar’s Week is offered to students at all three campuses of the
UASOM—Birmingham, Huntsville, and Tuscaloosa. All courses are centrally
administered by the IMS, but students from one campus can apply
for a Scholar’s Week course at either of the others. All students can submit
proposals to develop their own courses, and faculty at each campus can
develop their own courses tailored to their specialties.
In a way, that flexibility highlights the strengths of Scholar’s Week. “As
specialization and subspecialization increase,” says Weaver, “finding a way
to help students learn more about specialties becomes increasingly important.
This is an opportunity for students to decide whether a discipline
interests them enough to take an elective in their senior year, or perhaps
to pursue it as a residency. And without that opportunity, they might not
have even known that they had an interest in the field.”
For more information about Scholar’s Week, please contact Weaver at
(205) 934-2792.

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THE ART OF ADMISSIONS
A New Director’s Plans for Progress
By Shane Ivey
When you talk to Nathan Smith, M.D.
(UASOM Class of 1985), it quickly becomes
clear that the medical school admissions process
is not what many outsiders would expect.
Consistently good grades and solid performance
on the Medical College Admission Test
(MCAT) will always be prerequisites, of course,
but there’s much more to it than that. Just as
important are the less quantifiable things, the
talents and attitudes that help a good student
become an accomplished physician.
Smith, who became assistant dean for admissions
in September 2001, leads an admissions
committee of 55 members who are responsible
for interviewing between 450 and 500 applicants
each year from mid-September to mid-March.
“Every Thursday, more or less,” he says, “we have
25 applicants here and about 20 committee
members who interview them.”
Crucial Recruitment
But recruitment hardly begins in the application
interview; the admissions committee
is proactive in preparing college students for
the medical school admissions process.
Beginning in April, Smith and a handful of
committee members visit college campuses
throughout the state to conduct “sophomore
interviews.” They spend a day or a half-day at
each campus, where they meet with interested
undergraduates, discuss medical school
and the application process, conduct mock
admissions interviews, and give the students
feedback to help improve their chances of
acceptance. These interviews serve to encourage
the most promising students, whether
they are young students looking for their first
degrees or older students who have returned
to school hoping to become physicians. The
interviews are also an opportunity to counsel
students who may face particular challenges
in applying to medical school; and if medical
school is not for them, they have a chance to
find out ahead of time.
As assistant dean of admissions, Nathan Smith hopes to turn good students into great physicians.
Sophomore interviews also help Smith and Encouraging Applicants
the admissions committee learn what kinds of Ultimately, though, recruitment for medical
students are interested in medical school— school comes back to those essential qualities
and to encourage interest in the kinds of students
that the school itself most hopes to personality. Encouraging students who fit that
of intelligence, commitment, aptitude, and
enroll. Their efforts are aided by programs model to seek medical education is what the
such as the Rural Medical Scholars Program, admissions process is all about.
created to attract and train students with a “I think people often look at getting into
commitment to underserved rural communities,
and the UASOM’s participation in the really not,” says Smith. “It’s about service
medical school as an elitist process, and it’s
Minority Medical Education Program, which and leadership. It takes interest, a certain
helps minority undergraduates become more kind of personality, and the ability to communicate
effectively and, more importantly,
competitive candidates for medical school.
Another area receiving increasing attention is listen effectively. It’s about trying to identify
people who have the gifts and abilities to
the recruitment and training of physician-scientists
through the Medical Science Training provide good health care, particularly within
the State of Alabama.
Program (MSTP), a Ph.D./M.D. course for
medical researchers. As a major research institution,
the UASOM has a strong interest in train-
kinds of folks.”
“And, quite honestly, they’re rather regular
ing students who will undertake the next generation
of research, and the admissions office
makes recruiting those students a priority.
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A Nursing Shortage
Attracting Applicants for Crucial Care
By Roger Shuler
medicine at the UASOM and chief of staff at The
Kirklin Clinic. “Nurses are the glue that keeps
things running and keeps the quality of care high
throughout the institution.
“Physicians, by their work patterns and the
nature of what they do, can’t replace the care that
nurses give. Having fewer nurses in training is of
great concern.”
Nursing shortages are not unusual in health care.
But the current shortage, which started in the mid
1990s and is expected to last until 2010 and beyond,
is most unusual.
“This is the first shortage that has been declared
worldwide,” says Rachel Z. Booth, Ph.D., dean of
the University of Alabama School of Nursing at
UAB. “Some shortages can be predicted; they come
about once every decade. But this one is lasting
much longer.
“The Bureau of Labor Statistics says we will
need one million new registered nurses by 2010.
We will have to do something differently over the
next eight years, because we just don’t produce
them that quickly.”
The American Hospital Association says 126,000
nursing jobs—about 12 percent of national capacity—are
unfilled. Those figures cause concern across
the health care spectrum.
“The quality of care, in both the clinic and hospital
settings, is strongly related to the quality of nursing
care,” says Nancy Dunlap, M.D., professor of
Feeling the Need
Nurse educators say several factors—hospital
mergers, layoffs, and heavy workloads—are contributing
to the shortage.
Demographics play a major role. “We have 78
million Baby Boomers going into the older phase of
life, and older people tend to need care for chronic
conditions,” Booth says. “At the same time, our registered
nurses now are older; the average age of all
registered nurses is 45.
“Also, the pool from which we’ve traditionally
drawn students—females, primarily—has decreased.
Other careers have become very attractive to
females, so we’ve lost many potential nurses to other
professions. You take all of those factors in combination,
and we are in pretty serious trouble.”
Health care providers are feeling the pinch.
“There is natural turnover in nursing because nurses
tend to be young and mobile, and life changes
bring them in and out of the profession,” Dunlap
“Nurses are the glue that keeps
things running and keeps the
quality of care high throughout
the institution. “
says. “We constantly have positions that need to be
filled. But as our ability to fill them decreases, it
stresses the system. We have to offer higher and
higher salaries to nurses.”
At The Kirklin Clinic, administrators are considering
a variety of options for dealing with the shortage.
“We’ve been looking at alternate labor forces to fill
some of the gaps,” Dunlap says. “We are looking at
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Nancy Dunlap is chief of staff at
The Kirklin Clinic
tasks that might be filled by employees
with other skills sets. But the acuity
of care in the outpatient setting is
going up. Many therapies that used to
be done in the hospital arena now are
being done in the clinical setting, so
we really need highly skilled nurses.”
The percentage of nurses working
in hospitals continues to decline,
Booth says. “Fifty-nine percent of
R.N.’s work in hospitals, and the
rest work in community settings—
offices, clinics, long-term care facilities,
hospices, nursing homes,
schools, industry. We have hospitals
with higher acuity of care and shorter
lengths-of-stay. And patients are
going home much sooner than in
the past, so we must have nurses in
the community. That’s something
that is new about this shortage.”
The Untold Story
Booth traces the roots of the current
shortage to a spate of hospital
closings and mergers in the early
1990s. “The media gave a lot of visibility
to hospitals laying off R.N.’s,
and that led to a decline in applications
to nursing schools,” she says.
“Young people didn’t want to go
into a profession that they didn’t
think would offer them jobs.”
The media, however, did not tell
the whole story. While the number
of R.N.’s working in hospitals
declined by 6 percent, the number
working in community settings
increased by 12 percent. “But the
public only heard about the downsizing
of nurses in hospitals,” Booth
says. “They didn’t hear the other
side of the story.”
A trend quickly became apparent,
driven partly by the aging of
America’s nurses. “Studies show
that younger nurses tend to select
more acute-care units,” Booth says.
“But when you have fewer younger
nurses, then you don’t have the pool
you’ve traditionally had to work in
the acute-care setting. And that’s
where the shortage was first felt—in
the emergency rooms, delivery
rooms, the ICUs. Then it spread to
other units.”
A study in the May 30, 2002,
issue of the New England Journal of
Medicine shows how nursing shortages
affect patient care. Researchers
found that in hospitals with higher
R.N. staffing, stays were 3 to 5 percent
shorter, and complication rates
2 to 9 percent lower than in hospitals
with lower staffing.
Getting Back on Track
Efforts to ease the nursing shortage
are showing some encouraging
results. The University of Alabama
School of Nursing at UAB reports
a 50 percent increase in the number
of new students enrolled in
2002. “We have accelerated our
recruiting since applications started
to go down in the mid 1990s,”
Booth says. “We’ve extended to
younger populations, even visiting
middle schools. We’ve targeted
male prospects and individuals
with degrees in other fields. We
also reinstituted a program in
which student nurses pay back
scholarships by guaranteeing that
they will work in a hospital for a
certain number of years.”
Attracting more males to nursing
is critical, Booth says. “Part of the
problem is a stereotype that starts
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in the home. We need to educate
parents that males can have wonderful
careers in nursing. Only 5.4
percent of all R.N.’s are male, and I
would love to see us get to a point
where males make up 10 to 12 percent
of our classes.”
“The media gave a lot of visibility to hospitals
laying off R.N.’s, and that led to a decline in
applications to nursing schools. Young people
didn’t want to go into a profession that
they didn’t think would offer them jobs.”
Nursing organizations have
become politically active, pushing
state legislatures to allocate funds
for scholarships, loans, and other
incentives.
On the national level, Johnson &
Johnson is sponsoring a $20-million,
multiyear promotional campaign.
Nurses for a Healthier
Tomorrow (NHT), a coalition of 37
nursing and health care organizations,
is supporting a similar effort.
Physicians also can play a role.
First, they tend to be excellent
recruiters for nursing schools. “We
frequently get students who have
been referred to the school by a
physician, not only in-state students,
but out-of-state students as
well,” Booth says.
But the physician’s role goes
beyond recruiting. “Physicians need
to be very aware of the important
skills set nurses bring to health
care,” Dunlap says. “When you
have mutual respect in the workplace,
it’s usually more satisfying for
everyone involved.
“Physicians really need to make
nurses feel valued and help provide
the kind of satisfaction in the work
environment that will make them
want to stay.”
Rachel Z. Booth is dean of the
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BIG ISSUES ON
THE SMALL SCREEN
On the Line
with Wick Many, M.D.
By Sandra Bearden
Wickliffe “Wick” Many, M.D., probably has
more “patients” than any other doctor in
Montgomery, Alabama. “Little old ladies spot me
in the supermarket check-out line and compliment
me on my concern for callers,” says Many, who
hosts a weekly afternoon medical call-in segment
on WSFA-TV.
Many is an associate professor in the University
of Alabama School of Medicine and director of the
school’s internal medical residency program in
Montgomery. A 1973 UASOM graduate, he also
completed internships and residencies here. After
finishing an infectious diseases fellowship at the
University of Texas-Dallas and UAB, he went into
private practice in Montgomery. Except for a twoyear
stint in New Orleans, he has practiced medicine
in Montgomery since 1980.
“About 5:10 p.m. on Mondays, the station opens
up the phone lines for people to ask any medical
questions they want to,” Many says. “I never know
what’s coming in. Our only warning is a two-second
delay to weed out obscene language.”
Most of the time, questions are mundane rather
than exotic. “Typically, questions are along the lines
of, ‘My back hurts,’ or ‘my feet swell,’” Many says.
“Calls are anonymous and callers can ask anything,
but mostly they ask meat-and-potatoes, straightforward
questions.”
Many says this response has helped bring him
down to earth on patients’ concerns. “Although it’s
important to have the scientific background and
know about the latest high-tech
medical advances, physicians can’t
lose sight of what matters to
patients. When I work with house
staff, I remind them that many
patients are most concerned
about why they’re not sleeping or
why they are constipated.”
Although he’s able to answer
most questions, Many receives a
few puzzlers. In those cases, he
researches the answers with colleagues
or references and returns with on-the-air
answers. And a few, like a request for on-the-air
diagnosis of a skin rash, indicate some callers may
not be thinking clearly when they dial the station.
Then there was the call indicating the caller had
more than medicine on her mind. “Are you single?”
was the question. Many’s response: “I grinned.”
Many began his part-time TV career in 1998,
when a friend, Bill VanHooser, D.V.M., recommended
him to WSFA after nationally syndicated
Dr. “Red” Duke retired.
VanHooser, a veterinarian,
hosts a “Pet Vet” program for
the station.
“WSFA is a big NBC affiliate,
so the call-in show gives
UAB’s program in Montgomery
some valuable exposure,”
Many comments. “For instance, in July we
introduce our new interns to the viewing audience.
Even though Dr. Tinsley Harrison started the
Montgomery program 28 years ago, many people
aren’t aware we’re here.”
In addition to helping Many keep in touch with
patient concerns and giving UASOM-Montgomery
visibility, the program is a form of civic service. “We
physicians need to give back to the community.
This is one way I do it,” Many says.
Wick Many answers callers’ medical
questions on WSFA-TV News.
COLLABORATION FOR A CAUSE: Focusing on Cancer in Minorities By Norma Butterworth-McKittrick
Mona Fouad and Edward Partridge are
forging partnerships to combat cancer.
For more than 10 years, Edward Partridge, M.D., and
Mona Fouad, M.D., M.P.H., have been forging partnerships
between the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
(CCC) and local community leaders, health-care professionals,
and medical researchers in multipronged efforts
to lower cancer mortality rates.
Studies in the late 1980s and early ’90s documented a
significant disparity in the number of cancer deaths
between whites and underserved ethnic groups.
Partridge, the CCC’s Director for Cancer Prevention
and Control, and Fouad, an associate scientist at the
CCC and an associate professor in the Division of
Preventive Medicine in the UAB School of Medicine
(UASOM), have taken leadership roles in developing
programs and initiatives to understand and eliminate
this gap.
Ann Smith, M.P.H., who serves as the liaison between
Partridge and Fouad and the staffs of the various programs,
explains that these lifesaving initiatives include
cancer education, community outreach, screening and
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treatment services, scientific review, and cancer control
studies. The CCC’s partnerships with Tuskegee University
and the Morehouse School of Medicine also provide
resources to help recruit and train minority researchers.
Both Partridge and Fouad emphasize that the CCC
alone cannot close the cancer mortality gap. It requires
“collaborative coalitions” to provide the necessary balance
of patient services and community-based research,
explains Partridge. To accomplish that goal, Partridge and
Fouad have led the CCC in establishing strong working
relationships with a wide variety of health-related organizations
and institutions, as well as concerned individuals.
In 1992 Partridge and John Carpenter, M.D.,
obtained a five-year, $1.2-million National Cancer
Institute (NCI) grant to fund the Black Belt Initiative,
an innovative program that linked the resources of the
CCC with local primary-care physicians and oncologists.
Fouad teamed with Partridge when she began serving
on the Community Outreach for Cancer Prevention
and Control Committee, shortly after she joined the

AN ANNIVERSARY FOR AOA
Celebrating a Century of Honors
By Roger Shuler
Feature Stories
When William Root was one of the
six Chicago medical students who
founded Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA),
the national medical honor society, in
1902, he said he viewed the society as
a protest against “a condition which
associated the name ‘medical student’
with rowdyism, boorishness, immorality,
and low educational ideals.”
At the time of AOA’s founding, no
more than 15 percent of the some
25,000 medical students in the United
States were college graduates. Many
medical schools themselves were of
dubious quality, some operating out of
storefronts, tenements, or warehouses.
Much has changed in the 100 years
since AOA began. Perhaps no one
symbolizes that better than Clancy
Johnson, M.D., who graduated from
the UASOM in 2002 and started her
internship at UAB Hospital in June.
Johnson was one of only seven students
from her class to become AOA
members as juniors, and she was president
of the UAB chapter as a senior.
AOA membership is based on academic
performance and leadership.
All nominated students must be in
the top 25 percent of their class and
demonstrate qualities such as leadership,
fairness, compassion, integrity,
and a commitment to service.
“I think it’s a great honor to be in
AOA,” Johnson says. “It helps you get
interviews for residency programs
and generally just helps you stand
out. I think students are very aware of
what AOA means, and I hope that
awareness will keep growing.”
AOA has a strong tradition at the
UASOM. The UAB chapter was
founded in 1950 and has more than
900 members. William B. Deal, M.D.,
dean of the UASOM, served as national
president in 1994-95, and Suzanne
Oparil, M.D., a UAB cardiologist, has
served as secretary/treasurer.
UAB celebrated AOA’s 100th
birthday by hosting a dinner, featuring
a talk by UASOM alumnus
Peyton T. Taylor, Jr., M.D., professor
of obstetrics and gynecology at the
University of Virginia and medical
“Worthy to Serve the Suffering”:
C. Bruce Alexander, councilor of the
UAB chapter, says AOA still encourages
students to live up to its motto.
director of the cancer center there.
Taylor’s talk, titled “From Charlottesville
to Birmingham in Three Giant Steps,”
chronicled the contributions of Robley
Dunglison, M.D.; Sir William Osler,
M.D.; and Tinsley Harrison, M.D. All
wrote textbooks that changed the
course of medical science.
Pathologist C. Bruce Alexander,
M.D., is the current councilor of the
UAB chapter. He became a member of
AOA while a student at the University
of Virginia in 1970. “AOA is an honor
society, but it also sponsors activities
that affect all medical students,”
Alexander says. “For example, our
local chapter is involved with the AOA
Art Show and service projects, and it
helps with student orientation.
“The AOA motto is: ‘Worthy to
serve the suffering.’ There is a great deal
of emphasis on expanding the total
education of the medical student.”
Johnson values that approach to
medical education. She grew up in
Cullman and earned a bachelor’s
degree in chemistry at Birmingham-
Southern College, where she played
on the tennis team. “When I was
about eight years old, I knew I liked
science,” she says. “Then my grandmother
developed lung cancer, and I
spent some time with her doctor. I
liked the way he related to her, and I
think that helped influence me to go
into medicine.”
Johnson plans to stay involved
with AOA. “While I was a student,
we tried to get more involvement
with the AOA from all medical students
and the faculty, too. That’s
something I hope the students coming
up behind me will continue.”
UASOM faculty in 1990. Building on the success of
the Black Belt Initiative, they have developed a
number of effective outreach programs, including
the Alabama Partnership for Cancer Control (a joint
effort established in 1996 between the CCC and the
American Cancer Society), the Alabama Department
of Health, and other related organizations to facilitate
access to health-care resources in underserved
areas of the state.
Both Partridge and Fouad recognize the need to
involve lay people in the CCC’s programs. “It is only
when we work directly with people in the communities
that change comes about,” points out Fouad.
With that in mind, the CCC established the
Deep South Network for Cancer Control specifically
to educate local residents so that they, in turn, can
educate their family members, friends, and neighbors
about cancer. This grassroots initiative, which
started as a pilot program funded by a $50,000 state
grant in 1998, enlisted CCC staff to educate women
and men in underserved communities about prevention
measures, the need for screening, and the
importance of early detection. The success of the
Deep South Network gained nationwide attention,
and the NCI awarded the program a five-year, $6.1-
million grant in 2000. Now, with the collaborative
help of Tuskegee University, the University of
Alabama, and other institutions, the CCC has
expanded the program to reach underserved populations
in Mississippi as well as in Alabama.
About 785 lay people have been trained through
the Deep South Network as Community Health
Advisors (CHAs) and Community Health Advisors
as Research Partners (CHARPS). CHAs also play a
vital role in the REACH 2010 Project, a federally
funded, four-year, $3.6-million study that began in
2001. REACH 2010 draws on the combined
resources of the CCC and two established regional
coalitions—the House of Hope, Inc., headed by
Dennis King, Sr., in Mobile County, and Sisters in
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Survivorship through Action and Support (SIS-
TAS), led by Carrie Nelson Hale of Montgomery.
Fouad coordinates and serves as principal investigator
for REACH 2010, which is focusing on eliminating
barriers that prevent or discourage minority
women from getting early diagnosis and follow-up
treatment for breast and cervical cancer.
In addition, Fouad and Partridge serve as codirectors
of the Breast Cancer Research and Care Program.
Funded by the Avon Foundation, this new study
focuses on the adequacy of diagnostic and therapeutic
care delivery in rural underserved populations in
relation to the prognosis of breast cancer patients.
Like REACH 2010, the Breast Cancer Research and
Care Program builds on the collaborative partnerships
the CCC has already formed with regional
health-care professionals—partnerships that will continue
to improve health care for the underserved and
narrow the gap in cancer treatment and mortality.

Physicians’ Forum By
Shane Ivey
M E D I C A R E R E I M B U R S E M E N T S
Between now and 2005, physicians face sharp cuts in Medicare reimbursement for their services—
approximately 4.4 percent in 2003 alone, and total cuts of up to 17 percent between 2003 and 2005. The
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed restoring more than $1 billion in
reimbursements through 2005, reflecting rising liability costs and what many consider to be unrealistic estimates
of physicians’ ability to increase productivity and revenues. But the CMS measure would only reduce
the cuts, not eliminate them. Physicians still face decreasing reimbursements and costs which, in some
regions, continue to increase at a rate beyond even the revised CMS estimates. Physicians may in fact lose
money by treating Medicare patients—and some physicians are refusing to
take Medicare patients as a result.
The Alabama Medical Alumni Bulletin asked two practicing physicians
from diverse backgrounds to give their perspectives on this difficult issue.
Betty Ruth Speir (UASOM 1963) is a gynecologist in private practice in Point
Clear, Alabama, and James Woodard (UASOM 1985) is an internist in
Columbus, Mississippi.
Will the expected changes to Medicare reimbursement affect your practice or your
patients? If so, how?
Betty Ruth Speir, M.D.
Betty Ruth Speir, M.D.: For several years, reimbursement has diminished and overhead expenses
have escalated. As a solo gynecologist in a retirement community facing further decreases in
Medicare reimbursement, I have had to face the fact I can no longer afford to maintain a quality
staff and office. I am closing my practice because I can no longer afford to personally subsidize the
care of my patients. Group practices, with shared overhead expenses, are adversely affected to a
lesser degree, but the impact will still be felt acutely. My patients will find fewer and fewer physicians
who accept Medicare and fewer services provided by Medicare than in the past.
James Woodard, M.D.: Any proposed cuts in reimbursement could be disastrous to a primary
care practice. As a general internist, my practice overhead is 50-55 percent, and my partners and
I watch expenses very carefully. Medicare currently reimburses me at approximately 60 percent of
my customary fee, depending on the type and level of service rendered. Any more cuts by
Medicare will make it difficult to cover our overhead, let alone draw salaries.
James Woodard, M.D.
Which areas of medicine do you expect to be most affected by Medicare cuts? For example,
there are fears that fewer mammograms will be done—at a time when women are urged to
get more regular screenings—because Medicare reimbursements do not match the expense of
the procedure. Do you expect any other areas of medicine to be particularly disrupted by
the changes?
Speir: Having had the privilege of caring for patients for the past 39 years, I have seen cancer of
the cervix and uterus virtually eliminated through the use of annual screening technology and
encouragement of women to have annual exams. Breast cancers are now detected in early stages,
which are amenable to surgery, and lower morbidity and mortality rates have proven the value of
annual exams and routine mammography screening. We are moving with great haste in the wrong
direction. Diminishing Medicare reimbursements will lessen the availability of these proven benefits
and, with later diagnosis and treatment, we will see an increase in morbidity and mortality rates.
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Woodard: I think cuts in reimbursement will
affect primary care physicians more than most
other specialties, since they tend to treat a
larger number of elderly and disabled
patients. I have practiced general internal
medicine in a small town for 14 years. My
Medicare percentage is about 75 percent. My
senior partner, with 36 years of practice, has a
practice that is 90 percent Medicare. We have
a large number of patients who are old and
have multiple medical problems. Many of
these people are nursing-home residents who
would have no health-care provider if not for
us. With the recent decline in the number of
medical students going into primary care residencies,
coupled with an aging population, I
fear there won’t be enough providers available
to care for the Medicare population in the
next 10 to 15 years.
The White House recently approved additional
options in the Medicare+Choice
plan, which will be modeled after privatesector
preferred provider organization
(PPO) coverage. To what extent do you
expect that this measure will make health
care—particularly drug prescriptions—
more accessible to seniors who cannot
afford supplemental insurance?
Woodard: I think this will help initially.
However, as the general population continues
to age, and as medical technology continues
to expand the number of costly medications,
I don’t see the proposed change lasting very
long. The responsibility for the increase in
pharmaceutical costs involves all of us. The
increase in class-action suits does nothing
except drive up drug costs. The drug companies
need to recoup the costs of drug development,
but it seems their marketing and sales
costs could be reduced, with those cost savings
passed on to the consumer. Another big
part of the increase in drug costs falls on the
shoulders of physicians themelves. As a group
we tend to use the newest and most expensive
medications available. I am certain that many
minor infections, dyspepsia, arthritis symptoms,
and even cases of hypertension could be
treated with older, less-expensive medications.
Speir: With the Medicare+Choice plan,
patients who can afford supplemental insurance
will be able to obtain limited help with
certain drug prescriptions. Many are finding
that this costs as much as, or more than,
their prescriptions.
“Another big part of the increase in drug costs falls on the shoulders
of physicians themelves. As a group we tend to use the newest and
most expensive medications available.” —James Woodard, M.D.
Estimates of physicians’ ability to increase
productivity were a key issue in the recent
proposal to reduce Medicare cuts. In
what ways, if any, do you expect that
physicians will be able to reduce their
expenses in order to make up for reductions
in reimbursement?
Speir: Medicare is giving many physicians only
two options: Offer substandard care, which
most refuse to do, or refuse to see Medicare
patients at all, which has become the least
undesirable alternative. There is no incentive
for physicians to reduce expenses, or withhold
services from their Medicare patients, except
the threat of prosecution or liability for delivering
only the degree of service commensurate
with the price being offered. Physicians have
negative incentives to see Medicare patients
and do so only out of compassion and concern
for their patients and community.
Woodard: As part of a practice in a small
town, with at least 75 percent Medicare and
an office overhead of 50-55 percent, I don’t
think I can increase my productivity much
more with regard to Medicare patients. It boils
down to deciding whether you’re willing to
make less salary in order to see these patients.
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Are there any other steps that physicians
can take to still provide necessary services
to patients whose coverage has been cut?
Woodard: The use of physician extenders
(nurse practicioners and physician assistants)
would be one way.
Speir: There are many solutions to the financing
problems faced by Medicare. Withholding
monies from physicians and other providers
will lead to the worst outcomes. As I have
mentioned, there are no positive incentives for
physicians and other providers to continue to
subsidize the Medicare program. There are
only undesirable options for physicians, and
the ever-increasing risk of prosecution or liability
for unfavorable outcomes.
Private pay and a few adequately insured
patients have subsidized the care of indigent,
underinsured, and Medicare patients for
years. This ever-smaller group of adequatepay
patients can no longer carry the burden.
It is no longer a viable system.
Give seniors a real choice. Give them money
or a voucher equal to the fair value of the cost
of a senior’s care, and allow them to purchase
their own health insurance. Let the open market
compete for their business. Eliminate age
discrimination in the health-insurance business.
Give seniors at least the same rights and
options as the rest of the population. Relieve
physicians and other health-care providers of
the default position of becoming financiers of
last resort for seniors with Medicare.
I am closing my practice. Many excellent
physicians will do the same, as soon as they can.
They will return only when the current punitive
“Medicare is giving many physicians only two options: Offer substandard
care, which most refuse to do, or refuse to see Medicare
patients at all, which has become the least undesirable alternative.”
—Betty Ruth Speir, M.D.
system has been fixed. I hope that will occur
soon. This generation of seniors continues to
suffer the consequences of a broken system.

Student Rounds By
Shane Ivey
MATCH DAY
Each year in March, the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) matches medical
school graduates with residency programs across the country. Graduates pick their favorite
programs ranked in order of choice, and the NRMP’s computers determine their actual
placement based on ranking, availability, and other criteria provided by the participating
institutions. The results usually tell graduates where they will be serving as residents for the
next three or more years.
There has long been controversy surrounding the Match, particularly among students who
feel constrained by it. Graduates may elect not to use the NRMP (and some specialties do
not use it at all), but more than 80 percent of first-year residencies are offered exclusively
through the program—and in 2004 the program will require that many institutions participating
in the Match use it exclusively to fill their residency positions. Graduates who use the
program cannot seek positions outside of it, and once they designate their choice of residency
programs, they are bound to go where the Match places them.
In May 2002, medical students filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the Match program
on antitrust grounds, alleging that the defendants—several medical organizations and more
than 1,000 private hospitals—have used the program as a means to control residents’
salaries and hours. According to the plaintiffs, the institutions do not have to compete to
recruit residents and therefore can set salaries at relatively low levels (the national average is
less than $40,000) while requiring residents to work 80 or more hours per week.
The Alabama Medical Alumni Bulletin asked Darren Evan Malone and Ann Marie
Arciniegas, two UASOM students who have experienced the match process first-hand, for
their opinions on the system and the controversy surrounding it.
Darren Evan Malone: While the class-action
lawsuit has some valid arguments, it is most useful when combined
with the other two main lawsuits currently in litigation.
Fewer spots mean longer hours. Regulation of salaries on a
national level allows the smaller programs to compete with
the larger programs by offering fewer hours, more learning
opportunities, and a greater focus on residents’ training.
The focus of the lawsuits in a holistic sense is to give residents
fewer hours in the hospital and allow more time to study and
research their patients.
The reduction in hours is obviously beneficial to the residents,
but the effect on patient care is not so obvious; it will
require years of data collection to display the total picture. A
patient who is being operated on by a sleep-deprived resident
may be at a higher risk for complications, but there are other
situations that create concern—such as a patient who does not
receive adequate continuity of care when a resident on-call is
forced to leave the hospital within a 24-hour window.
I agree with the first argument of the lawsuit but disagree
with the desire to force programs to recruit residents. The economics
of the challenge are self-defeating. Simple supply-anddemand
curves show that when salaries are increased, the curve
equilibrates with fewer residency spots. Fewer spots mean
longer hours. Regulation of salaries on a national level allows
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the smaller programs to compete with the
larger programs by offering fewer hours, more
learning opportunities, and a greater focus on
residents’ training.
And controlling the match avoids an atmosphere
in which programs might begin to recruit
when students are still in their first year of medical
school. It also allows students to take their
time and discover what type of training they
desire. I know very few students who are applying
to the programs they originally thought
they would as they entered medical school.
The current program is not perfect, but it
works when you consider some of the alternatives.
Ann Marie Arcienegas: The
NRMP offers definite advantages to both
parties. The electronic residency application
service simplifies the matching process by
allowing you to submit all materials
through one site, rather than having to submit
materials to individual programs, as
many of us did when applying to college.
Darren Evan Malone
I believe the match is necessary. It provides the conditions that
are most likely to achieve the goal of having an applicant obtain
employment in the best medical training program.
And the NRMP has systemized the matching
process with its stated purpose of providing
"a uniform time for both applicants
and programs to make their selections without
pressure." In addition, it is a system in
which the ranking of programs as well as the
selection of applicants is confidential.
Nevertheless, the current lawsuit raises
questions concerning the constraints
placed by the NRMP and suggests that it
should be dissolved. The main allegation is
that the NRMP eliminates competition in
the recruitment, employment, and compensation
of resident physicians. As a
result, resident salaries are standardized
and artificially depressed; residents are
deprived of the ability to negotiate terms
of employment, such as work hours; and,
in general, residents are not able to freely
choose their employers because they are
obligated to work for the program selected
through the match.
All of these allegations have some merit.
Before the match, physicians sought a residency
training position much as individuals
in virtually all other industries applied for
work, by interviewing and selecting among
job offers. This allowed the prospective
employee to consider all factors important
to his decision, including hours, salary, benefits,
geographic location, and other offers.
More and better offers were given to the
more appealing applicants; as a colleague
said to me during a discussion of this issue,
“Welcome to the real world.”
I feel that the downsides of a free market—
including increased chaos and stress in seeking
employment—are not reason enough to support
the current match system. And certainly
increased salaries and decreased hours, both of
which would be more likely without the
match, are appealing.
However, I believe the match is necessary.
It provides the conditions that are most
likely to achieve the goal of having an applicant
obtain employment in the best medical
training program. The unique position of a
medical student is that he or she is looking
for an educational training program as well
as a position of employment. It is important
to be able to explore all opportunities before
making this decision, and to not be placed
in the position of having to commit to an
offer before other potential offers are made.
Perhaps changes are needed in the NRMP
to correct, at least to a degree, the complaints
expressed in the lawsuit. Already
there has been reform in the number of residents’
work hours, which indicates that
change may be achieved without dissolving
the current system.
Without a doubt, this lawsuit has led
many individuals such as myself to consider
this issue more closely. If nothing else, it has
served as a reminder that we can be a voice
for change and must choose in which way
we wish to be heard.
Match Days
Main Match 2003: 3/20/03
OB/GYN 2003: 11/06/02
Pediatric Critical Care 2003: 11/13/02
Colon and Rectal Surgery 2003: 12/4/02
Pediatric Emergency Medicine 2003: 12/11/02
Child Psychiatry 2003: 1/14/03
Primary Care Sports Medicine 2003: 1/22/03
Spine Surgery 2004: 2/12/03
Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery 2004: 4/30/03
Pediatric Surgery 2004: 5/14/03
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 2004: 5/21/03
Combined Musculoskeletal 2004: 5/28/03
Vascular Surgery 2004: 5/28/03
Radiology 2004: 6/4/03
Pediatric Cardiology 2004: 6/18/03
Thoracic Surgery 2004: 6/18/03
Medical Subspecialties 2004: 6/25/03
Source: National Resident Matching
Program [www.nmrp.org].
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Letter from John Lankford
In this edition of the Medical Alumni Bulletin, articles appear on
gifts by two of our alumni and a grateful patient. During the course
of the Campaign for UAB, the School of Medicine has received gifts
from grateful patients, friends, alumni, corporations and foundations,
and through bequests and estate planning. All of these represent
important modes by which donors participate in the Campaign.
Anton Bueschen, M.D., director of the Division of Urology and
president of the Health Services Foundation, addressed the need for
endowed chairs in his division by asking for support from grateful
patients. In response, the Robert and Catherine Lowder Foundation is
funding the first endowed chair in the Division of Urology, which is
named in honor of Dr. Bueschen. This is the first of four endowed
chairs currently being pursued by Urology. Funds generated from the
establishment of these chairs will be used to enrich the activities of the
faculty holding them, thereby greatly enhancing academic excellence.
Barry Wilson, M.D., an OB/GYN in private practice in
Montgomery, Alabama, has chosen to fund a medical scholarship
with his gift. Dr. Wilson grew up in Wedowee, Alabama, and his life
has been greatly enriched through his educational experience at
Auburn University and the University of Alabama School of Medicine
at UAB. Because of his strong ties to his hometown, Dr. Wilson chose
to fund an undergraduate scholarship for a Wedowee student
at Auburn and a medical scholarship here at the School of
Medicine. The scholarship
is managed by the Medical
Alumni Association.
Dr. and Mrs. Lonnie W.
Funderburg’s contribution
will go toward the renovation
and expansion of
Volker Hall. In recognition
of their generous gift, one
of the main lecture halls
will be dedicated in their honor. As you know, the goal for the Volker
Hall project is $10 million, and we plan to complete the construction
phase early this year. Thanks to gifts like the Funderburgs’, that goal
is within reach.
These are only a few of the many examples of how private support
helps the School of Medicine accomplish its objectives. Donations
from friends, alumni, and grateful patients comprise the major portion
of gifts to our comprehensive campaign. The three gifts illustrated
above represent support for faculty, students, and construction,
reflecting the primary needs of the campaign. I hope each of you will
consider a project where you can directly support the School of
Medicine. The development staff would be pleased to meet with you
to discuss the numerous opportunities.
The Funderburg Reception
William B. Deal, M.D., UAB vice president for medicine and dean of the UASOM, hosted a reception honoring Dr. and Mrs. Lonnie William
Funderburg—the first treasurer of the Medical Alumni Association when it was reorganized in Birmingham in 1961—for their philanthropic support
of the Volker Hall project. The reception was held at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens on August 29, 2002. Guests included members of the 811
Club, the class of 1950, and friends and family of Dr. and Mrs. Funderburg.
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1—Lonnie Funderburg, M.D., and Mary Funderburg. 2—Lonnie Funderburg, M.D.,
and William B. Deal, M.D. 3—Wayne Finley, M.D., and Lonnie Funderburg, M.D.
4—Dr. and Mrs. Samuel K. Cohn, Thomas W. Mears, M.D., and James A. Pittman,
Jr., M.D. 5—Lonnie Funderburg, M.D., Edd Johnson, Mary Funderburg, JoAnn
Johnson, and Alfred Habeeb, M.D.
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theUASOM
$240 million
goal!
to our on our way
$223 million
$223
MILLION
RAISED
AS OF
11/30/02
The Campaign for UAB
Major Contributors and
Dean’s Partners Reception
On October 18, 2002, the University of Alabama School of Medicine at
UAB recognized its major contributors and Dean’s Partners with a reception
held at the Woodward House. The event was hosted by Vice President and
Dean William B. Deal, M.D., and members of the Dean’s Advisory Council.
Membership in the Dean’s Partners is open to all medical alumni and supporters
of the School of Medicine. This is an elite group of supporters who
contribute $1,000 annually for three years for discretionary purposes, which
helps the school meet unanticipated needs. Enclosed is a return envelope and
gift card for use by new members. If you would like additional information,
please contact the Medical Development Office at (205) 934-4469.
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$150 million
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$50 million
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1—Brenda Hackney and Ocllo Malone. 2—Emmie and Herman Bolden. 3—Frances
Caldwell Bennett, J. Claude Bennett, M.D., and Gail Sharp. 4—William B. Deal, M.D.,
and Regina Benjamin, M.D. 5—James A. Pittman, Jr., M.D., April Deal, Paul W.
Burleson, M.D., and William B. Deal, M.D. 6—Tim M. Townes, Ph.D., and Richard B.
Shepard, M.D. 7—Arthur Corte and Richard Whitley, M.D. 8—Glenn and Mallie Ireland.
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The Campaign for UAB
W. Edward Bailey
By Shane Ivey
N
ew York attorney and
Alabama native Ed Bailey
joined the Dean’s Advisory
Council out of a general interest
in the advancement of the
UASOM, but he soon had a
very personal reason for that
support. Treatment at UAB
saved his mother’s life.
Bailey has lived in New York
since 1974, but his mother still
lives in his hometown of
Auburn, Alabama. “About a year ago, she was
diagnosed with breast cancer,” says Bailey. “She
was 84 at the time. She came to UAB and was
treated by Dr. Kirby Bland, the head of the
Department of Surgery. The surgery was successful
and she continues to be seen by him.”
Bailey has kept strong ties to Alabama,
and medicine, throughout his career. His
father, Wilford S. Bailey, D.V.M., D.Sc.,
was a professor at Auburn University’s
College of Veterinary Medicine, served as
executive vice president of academic affairs
for the university in the 1970s, and eventually
served as interim president of the university
in the early 1980s. Ed Bailey began
his college career at Auburn, but he entered
the Johns Hopkins University II/V program,
leading to a B.A. and M.D. degree, as
a premedical student after two years. He
became dissatisfied with his studies, though,
and returned to Auburn to earn a bachelor’s
degree in chemistry.
He entered the graduate
program in biochemistry at
Vanderbilt University, but
soon realized that the laboratory
life wasn’t for him—
except for meeting his wife,
Cheryl, who was also in the
biochemistry program.
They married, and Bailey
then spent two years in the
U.S. Marine Corps, including
a tour of duty in Vietnam, and a year
working for South Central Bell, before deciding
to go back to school. He earned his law
degree from the University of Virginia School
of Law in 1973.
The Baileys moved to Birmingham,
where Ed spent a year working as a clerk for
the Honorable Frank H. McFadden, then
chief judge for the U.S. District Court for
the Northern District of Alabama, and his
wife worked for the UASOM Department
of Microbiology. Bailey remembers his year
as a law clerk in Birmingham as one of the
best of his career, and he remains in close
touch with Judge McFadden.
When the clerkship ended, the Baileys
looked for the city with the best fit for their
backgrounds. “I had a law degree and felt like
I could work anywhere. She had a Ph.D. in
biochemistry and needed a medical center.”
After looking at several different possibilities,
they decided on New York. They moved to
Manhattan in 1974, and Bailey joined the firm
of Fish & Neave. He is still there today.
“When I came to Fish & Neave,” he says,
“it had the reputation of being one of the
best firms in the area of what people used to
call patent law—now most people call it
intellectual-property law, because it is a little
broader than just patents. It includes patents,
trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition,
trade secrets, that sort of thing. I work mostly
on patent-infringement cases in federal
courts, and that work took me all over the
country and to many parts of the world.” He
made partner in the firm in 1982, and that
year he and his family—he and his wife had
a son and a daughter by then—moved to
nearby Westchester, where they live today.
He served as managing partner of Fish and
Neave from 1994 to 2000.
After nearly 30 years in intellectual-property
law, dealing extensively with high technology,
medicine, and emerging fields, Bailey
hopes that he can bring some of his expertise
to the Dean’s Advisory Council. Some of his
fondest memories are of the time he and his
wife spent in Birmingham, he says, when he
was a law clerk and she worked at the
UASOM. And, with his mother recovering
from cancer, he can tell anyone about the
importance of supporting the school. “The
care my mom got was fantastic,” he says.
“She’s doing great.”
North Carolina Reception
William B. Deal, M.D., Edward S. Beason, M.D. (plastic
surgeon, Winston-Salem), A. J. Naftel, M.D. (director,
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, UNC-
Chapel Hill), and L. Darryl Quarles, M.D. (director,
Center for Bone and Mineral Disorders, Duke University
Medical Center), hosted a University of Alabama School of
Medicine Alumni Reception on May 16, 2002. Held at
The University Club in Durham, North Carolina, the
reception was attended by alumni from Chapel Hill,
Durham, Greenville, and Winston-Salem.
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The Campaign for UAB
Kirby Bland, M.D.
By Shane Ivey
O
ne well-known goal of the UASOM
is top 10 status in NIH funding by
the year 2010: “Top 10 by 2010.” According
to recent NIH rankings, several individual
departments have already achieved that status.
One of them is the Department of
Surgery, chaired since 2000 by Dean’s
Advisory Council member Kirby Bland,
M.D. With research including the latest
implementations of technology and treatment
of conditions as widespread as cancer
and trauma, it is a good example of the
achievements and activities that will take the
UASOM to its goal—achievements that the
Dean’s Advisory Council and other supporters
make possible.
Minimally invasive surgery is one of the
department’s most prominent areas of
research. “It is highly probable that in the
next decade between 40 and 50 percent of
all surgical procedures currently conducted
will involve minimally invasive approaches,”
says Bland. “So we plan to build out about
5,000 square feet in Volker Hall for research
and for teaching minimally invasive surgery
to our residents.” Translational research aimed
at developing new methods and applications
of minimally invasive surgery will take place
in all divisions of the department, and will
even involve other schools entirely—the
Department of Surgery will work with the
School of Engineering’s Department of
Biomedical Engineering to develop new
techniques for simulating the movement
and sensations of the finger in minimallyinvasive
surgical tools.
The department also will continue its noteworthy
research into trauma. Irshad Chaudry,
Ph.D., and Loring Rue, M.D., are leading an
investigation of methods to manage acutely
injured patients, and there are a number of
clinical projects to assess patients in shock
and study gender differences in immune
response to trauma and shock.
The department is also prominently
involved in several areas of cancer
research. Bland is principal investigator on a
breast cancer SPORE (Specialized Project of
Research Excellence), a $13.8-million,
five-year project investigating various molecular
methods to improve patient care. And
Martin Heslin, M.D., and Selwyn Vickers,
M.D., are leading the development of a “virtual
clinic” for gastrointestinal cancers—that
is, a program to allow patients to visit consultants
from several different specialties and in
several different locations on the same day,
and perhaps get needed tests done as well.
Expansion of several facilities is planned
to support these programs. The department
hopes to build operatories in an animal laboratory
adjacent to the minimally invasive
surgery research space in Volker Hall; a computer-based
simulation laboratory; a “wet”
lab in Volker Hall to teach students, residents,
and physicians the techniques being
studied; and a conference room wired to
provide telemedicine.
“The Dean’s Advisory Council has been
extremely valuable in helping UAB articulate
its academic, educational, and research mission
to state and national leadership,” says Bland.
“We are able to convey to these partners that
we are trying to build upon our strengths in
education, in clinical care, and in fostering a
rapid ascension in research excellence.”
2 3 4
1—A. J. Naftel, M.D.,
William B. Deal, M.D., L.
Darryl Quarles, M.D., and
Edward S. Beason, M.D.
2—William B. Deal, M.D.,
and William L. Roper,
M.D. 3—Jane Naftel and
R. Gregory Daniel, M.D.
4—Marion Lankford,
Stephanie E. Freeman,
M.D., and Christa Tyson.
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Honors Convocation - MAY 19, 2002
The graduates of the Class of 2002 were recognized
on Sunday, May 19, 2002, at the annual honors
convocation. William B. Deal, M.D., Dean of
the University of Alabama School of Medicine at
UAB, presided.
T. Riley Lumpkin, M.D., president of the
Medical Alumni Association, spoke briefly to the
graduates, welcoming them into the Alumni
Association. Each graduate was presented with a
certificate of membership. Lumpkin also presented
the Alumni Award for Leadership and Community
Service, which included a check for $500 from the
Medical Alumni Association to the recipient.
E. Lamar Thomas, M.D., president of The
Caduceus Club of the Medical Alumni Association,
presented the two faculty awards sponsored by The
Caduceus Club. Each award included a check in the
amount of $1,000.
THE CADUCEUS CLUB AWARDS
Best Clinical Professor
Craig J. Hoesley, M.D.
Best Basic Science Professor
Michael A. Casey, M.D.
SCHOOLWIDE ACADEMIC AWARDS
Hugh J. Dempsey Memorial Award
Kristopher Wayne Cummings
A remembrance of the late Hugh J. Dempsey,
M.D., Professor of Medicine, the plaque and a prize
are presented annually as the highest award to a
member of the graduating class. The award is based
on cumulative academic achievements during the
entire four years as a student at the University of
Alabama School of Medicine at UAB.
Alumni Award for
Leadership and Community Service
Nicholas Hilkert Gaffga
A prize and plaque acknowledging outstanding
leadership and community service.
Medical Assurance Award for
Excellence in Patient Communications
Scott Acklin Matthews
A prize and plaque acknowledging excellence in
patient communication for a senior completing postgraduate
medical education in the State of Alabama.
The American Medical
Women’s Association Awards
Avni Amit Chudgar
Leslie Stuart Gewin
Clancy Hagedorn Johnson
Margaret Tait Moore
Karen Dietrich Walker
The Janet M. Glasgow Achievement Citation
recognizes female class members in the top 10 percent
of the class.
The Merck Manual Award
Derrick Bowling
Teresa Gottstine Magruder
Mathew Ryan Sapp
Margaret Elizabeth Speeker
Merck and Company, Inc., gives this award annually
to four outstanding students in medical studies.
William Boyd Medal
Clancy Hagedorn Johnson
This award to recognize exceptional performance
in pathology was made on behalf of the Alabama
Association of Pathologists.
The Stuart Graves Pathology Award
Kristopher Wayne Cummings
Reps Barnes Sundin
Presented for excellence in pathology during the
sophomore year.
The J. Garber Galbraith
Memorial Award in Human Anatomy
Benton Allen Emblom
Given for excellence in human anatomy during
the freshman year.
MEDICAL STUDENT RESEARCH SOCIETY
Prize Winners, Class of 2002
Leo Christopher DeRosier
Joy Ann Henningsen
Teresa Gottstine Magruder
Baubak Mansour
SCHOOLWIDE ACHIEVEMENTS
Alpha Omega Alpha
A national medical honor society which is based
on scholarship and high professional qualifications.
David Fielding Bryson
Avni Amit Chudgar
Eric Gray Clary
Kristopher Wayne Cummings
Leo Christopher DeRosier
Rebecca Howard DeRosier
Ryan Douglas Duncan
Benton Allen Emblom
Leslie Stuart Gewin
Allen Bernard Groves
Frank Spain Hodges
Clancy Hagedorn Johnson, President
James Erasmus Kendrick, IV
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Jonathan Edward Krichev
Louis William Lucas
Teresa Gottstine Magruder
Margaret Tait Moore
Tarek Omar Persaud
Joseph Jason Phillips
Bradley Thomas Smith
Margaret Elizabeth Speeker
Reps Barnes Sundin, Vice-President
Bradley Phillip Thomas
Karen Dietrich Walker, Vice-President
Shane Adam Wear
Formal Academic Honors
The University of Alabama School of
Medicine at UAB grants honors to the top
10th percentile of the class.
David Fielding Bryson, cum laude
Avni Amit Chudgar, cum laude
Kristopher Wayne Cummings, summa cum laude
Benton Allen Emblom, magna cum laude
Leslie Stuart Gewin, magna cum laude
Clancy Hagedorn Johnson, magna cum laude
James Erasmus Kendrick, IV, cum laude
Jonathan Edward Krichev, magna cum laude
Louis William Lucas, magna cum laude
Margaret Tait Moore, magna cum laude
Joseph Jason Phillips, cum laude
Bradley Thomas Smith, cum laude
Jeremy Bernard Smith, cum laude
Reps Barnes Sundin, cum laude
Bradley Phillip Thomas, magna cum laude
Karen Dietrich Walker, magna cum laude
BIRMINGHAM CAMPUS AWARDS
The Dean’s Award
Leslie Stuart Gewin
A prize and plaque for the most outstanding performance
in the clinical clerkships.
Achievement Awards
Certificates were presented to the following
exceptional members of the Class of 2001, in recognition
of superior achievements in the clinical curriculum
at the Birmingham campus.
Mary Elaine Allen
Avni Amit Chudgar
Leo Christopher DeRosier
Benton Allen Emblom
Eric Paul Hess
Rebecca Howard DeRosier
Clancy Hagedorn Johnson
James Erasmus Kendrick IV
Louis William Lucas
Bradley Phillip Thomas
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Battle S. Searcy Memorial Award
Clancy Hagedorn Johnson
This certificate and prize for the demonstration of
the highest performance in psychiatry was presented
on behalf of the Department of Psychiatry.
Bruce A. Harris, Jr., Award
Rebecca Howard DeRosier
Presented on behalf of the Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology for outstanding abilities
in OB/GYN.
Samuel Clements Little Award
Leslie Stuart Gewin
The certificate and prize for a student who
demonstrates unusual achievement in neurology.
Garber Galbraith Medical Student Award
Leo Christopher DeRosier
Presented for excellence in surgery.
G. Gayle Stephens Award
Nicholas Hilkert Gaffga
Awarded to a student who has demonstrated excellence
in family medicine.
Paul A. Palmisano Award
Whitney Winn Brown
An award given to a student who demonstrates
excellence in pediatrics, a passion for learning, a desire
to share knowledge through example, and a compassion
for the needs of children and their families.
Tinsley R. Harrison Award
Leslie Stuart Gewin
Presented to students who demonstrated outstanding
achievement in internal medicine.
Robert Goodloe McGahey Prize
Eric Gray Clary
Jeremy Bernard Smith
Awarded for outstanding performance in anesthesiology.
This award is given in memory of Robert
Goodloe McGahey, M.D., one of the first physicians
to practice anesthesiology in Alabama.
Excellence in Emergency Medicine Award
Frederic MacArthur Jones
Awarded for outstanding performance in
emergency medicine.
Emily F. Omura Award
Clancy Hagedorn Johnson
Karen Dietrich Walker
Awarded for outstanding performance in
dermatology.
Robert J. Stanley Award
For Excellence In Radiology
Amy Robben Mehollin-Ray
Awarded for outstanding performance in radiology.
American Academy of Neurology Prize
Leslie Stuart Gewin
Awarded for excellence in neurology.
Sarah F. Davis Award
Avni Amit Chudgar
Joseph Hao-Chang Wu
The Sarah F. Davis Awards were presented to the
best all-around female student and the best allaround
male student, as chosen by their classmates.
The award of certificate and a check is presented in
memory of Sarah F. Davis, M.D., who was a professor
of pediatrics and chair of the School of Medicine’s
Admissions Committee until her death in 1986.
Davis is remembered for her keen intellect, warm
sense of humor, and interest in students.
Tinsley R. Harrison Medical Student Society
Eric Gray Clary
Leslie Stuart Gewin
Louis William Lucas, President
James Lynn McAnally
Baubak Mansour
Tiffany Eliese Rice
A society dedicated to the pursuit of excellence
through scholarly exchange and research.
HUNTSVILLE CAMPUS AWARDS
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence
Jonathan Edward Krichev
Dean’s Leadership Award
Derrick Bowling
Christina Dithmer Noyes
Exemplary Academic Performance
Jeremy Bernard Smith
G. Gayle Stephens Award
Jonathan Edward Krichev
J. Ellis Sparks Award in Internal Medicine
Derrick Bowling
John Di Placido Award in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Amy Marie Bearden
John R. Montgomery Award in Pediatrics
Erica Marie Frank
Charles Selah Award in Surgery
Gorav Bohil
Jonathan Edward Krichev
Award for Excellence in Psychiatry
Jonathan Edward Krichev
TUSCALOOSA CAMPUS AWARDS
Scholastic Achievement Award
Kristopher Wayne Cummings
Given for the highest academic performance in
the clinical years.
William R. Willard Award (Dean’s Award)
Beverly Flowers Jordan
This singular recognition is awarded annually for
outstanding contribution to the goals and missions
of the College of Community Health Sciences.
James H. Akers Memorial Award
Kristopher Wayne Cummings
Presented annually to the senior who best personifies
both the art and the science of the practice
of medicine as chosen by the graduating class.
Robert F. Gloor Award
Beverly Flowers Jordan
Zanthia Evon Wiley
Given for excellent performance in behavioral
and community medicine.
Family Medicine Award
Julia Lett Boothe
Given for outstanding performance in
family medicine.
William W. Winternitz Award
Kristopher Wayne Cummings
Given for excellent performance in internal medicine
Finney/Akers Memorial Award
Nada Bashir Memon
Presented for outstanding ability in obstetrics
and gynecology.
Pediatrics Recognition Award
Margaret Tait Moore
Peter Bryce Award in Psychiatry
Margaret Tait Moore
Surgery Award
Bradley Thomas Smith
Neurology Award
Bradley Thomas Smith
Student Research Award
Beverly Flowers Jordan
Nada Bashir Memon
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The Caduceus Club
Travel Fellowship Report
OB/GYN Elective at BJ Medical College, Pune, India
By Manisha Navathe Panchal, M.D.
I walked into Sassoon Hospital, the government hospital of the
city of Pune, and found my way through the swarms of people to
the OB/GYN department. The number of patients loitering in the
hallways, awaiting medical care, was overwhelming. I found the
Unit II team preparing for rounds on their 50 patients, and I was
warmly greeted by Dr. Shrotri, my preceptor and head of the
department. The residents and interns were amiable and immediately
incorporated me into the Unit II team.
These papers were compiled into small stacks—I later realized that
these were the patients’ charts. If blood tests were indicated during
rounds, the interns personally gathered supplies and drew the blood
and transported the vials to the laboratory three floors below.
Moreover, we would be lucky to see the results the next day; the lack
of support staff was glaringly apparent. The team determined a
treatment plan for each patient based on the clinical information,
supplemented with occasional laboratory or radiographic data.
The impact of the unsanitary environment, and the marginalized
social status of the population served by Sassoon
Hospital, was apparent in the conditions that we repeatedly
diagnosed. Pelvic TB, which I’ve rarely seen in America,
was a common diagnosis.
My rotation was divided into wards, outpatient department visits,
delivery room, operating room, and a rural visit. Each experience
contributed a unique piece in developing my perspective on international
health care.
On the first day, I kept trying to pay attention during rounds as
my eyes were constantly drawn to thin patients lying on meager
cots. Our unit covered all the wards, which included the antenatal,
postnatal, and septic floors. The septic unit included all HIV-positive
patients and female OB/GYN patients with infectious diseases.
The chief resident first presented all the patients, after which the
team answered questions posed by the lecturer (attending physician)
concerning the multitude of diseases we encountered. I quickly realized
the high caliber of each member of the team. Their diagnostic
skills and attention to detail regarding each patient and disease
process impressed me.
The lecturer directed the patients to stick out their tongues and
lower their eyelids to get a quick indication of hydration status and
anemia. The doctors assessed each patient at bedside in a matter of
seconds and determined the treatments indicated, potential interventions,
personnel involved, and plan of action. The volume of
patients necessitated accelerated and keen decision-making.
As we walked bedside-to-bedside, ward-to-ward, I continued to
be amazed by the patient census. During rounds, the sisters (nurses)
would report patient blood test results on small pieces of paper.
Manisha Navathe Panchal, M.D., found exceptional need and
extraordinary performance in the government hospitals of India.
By the end of rounds I could not believe how many disease
processes I had been exposed to in just one morning. For example,
we saw stage IV cervical cancer, pregnant patients with severe heart
disease, and complicated anemia cases. The sheer numbers of
patients appalled me. From the first day, I realized the importance
of clinical acumen in the management of such a diverse and voluminous
population. Even with such a staggering number of
patients, health care was delivered while maintaining quality of care.
My outpatient experience was very rewarding. Each day of the
week was divided into a different clinic: GYN, postnatal, medical
termination of pregnancy, and HIV-positive women. One
by one, patients streamed through the clinics. In a single morning,
our outpatient clinic would see approximately 60 to 70
patients. My knowledge of Marathi, the local language,
improved as I took histories and examined patients, and I began
learning the different dialects of Marathi as the hospital drew
patients from many surrounding villages.
The impact of the unsanitary environment, and the marginalized
social status of the population served by Sassoon Hospital,
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was apparent in the conditions that we repeatedly
diagnosed. For example, pelvic TB was a common
diagnosis, in contrast to my experience in
America.
Although the patient count was very high,
informed consent and patient education were priorities,
especially with regard to HIV/AIDS. A study
sponsored by Johns Hopkins University is testing a
new drug to reduce the transmission rate of
HIV/AIDS, and 50 women were enrolled. The
patients moved through a maze of stations, including
counseling, teaching, and examinations to test
their understanding, and then the actual HIV test.
On the next visit, they underwent post-test counseling.
Patient education needed to be directed to the
average level of education, which I estimated was
ninth grade for males and fourth grade for females. I
was impressed by the handouts and visual aids used
to educate the women and their husbands about
HIV/AIDS transmission and the disease process.
The delivery room experience was unique—I
had never seen so many births simultaneously. The
team delivered approximately 25 babies during the
24-hour shift. As I heard a shriek with each contraction,
I was awaiting an anesthesiologist to put
in an epidural. Unfortunately, epidurals are not
available at Sassoon Hospital; there was only local
anesthesia available for episiotomies. All the cots
were conveniently arranged next to each other, so
the patients could be monitored and cared for
together. We listened attentively to each fetal heartbeat
with stethoscopes, which were our only guide
to the babies’ well being. Sound clinical judgement
and constant surveillance were essential to a successful
outcome. Despite the lack of resources the
infant mortality rates are surprisingly low.
Next to the delivery room, there was a special
room designated for eclampsia patients. One day
the whole team was summoned to the scene as a
16-year-old girl, two hours postpartum, began
seizing. I watched the complex interplay between
Unit II team members as they assembled IVs,
delivered the medications, and brought the situation
under control. The team members washed up
and moved on as if this was a routine dance they
performed. I later discovered that they treated
approximately two or three- eclampsia patients a
day. Yet again, I left the hospital astounded.
Every Friday was designated as the OT
(Operation Theater) day. There were usually four
to six cases scheduled for the day, including elective
Caesarians. We would all enter the OT clad in
the same gear: sterile cloth gown, a cloth headpiece
that would also serve as a mask, and slippers.
The sisters brought out the instruments and the
surgeries commenced. One lecturer oversaw the
OT as the residents performed the operations. An
anesthesiologist walked between the rooms—
none of them air conditioned—to monitor pain
and give sedation as needed. I did not observe the
use of any general anesthesia; patients were given
sedation and a local anesthesia, even for vaginal
hysterectomies. Blood pressure was monitored by
palpitation, and one anesthesia/intubation cart
was shared among the entire OT. I was stunned by
the patients’ moans and groans throughout the
surgeries; each time, more sedation would be given
and the operations would continue. The residents
skillfully performed the surgeries to the best of
their abilities, with the resources available. When
each procedure was finished, used equipment was
sanitized and the patient was transferred to the
wards for monitoring. As Chief Resident Dr. Parag
and I walked out on my last day in the OT, he
reassured me of the small number of infections
and minimal mortality rate with their procedures.
Towards the end of my elective, I was fortunate to
have the opportunity to visit the Primary Health
Center of Paud, a rural hospital 30 kilometers north
of Pune. I witnessed a delivery under very basic conditions.
One doctor is posted to each rural location,
and she is not always present during the deliveries.
We toured a secondary site 10 kilometers north of
Paud, a village named Kolvan. These clinics were
minimally stocked, but all the patients’ records were
properly documented. The staff maintained small
medication dispensaries at each location.
During the course of my rotation, I learned from
and bonded with my teammates. They open-heartedly
took me in and eased my transition into a foreign
system, and I was impressed by their efforts to
make me feel like part of the team. They opened their
dorm rooms to me (residents have to stay in house in
the dorms at all times) and ensured I was getting a
truly representative experience. I felt embraced by the
culture and people as I left Sassoon Hospital.
My experience at Sassoon Hospital reinforced my
views on the importance of compassion in medicine.
The Indian health-care system requires physicians to
see a multitude of patients every day. The pathology
and disease processes presented require a thorough
understanding of medicine. However, to treat each
person requires not only a background in medicine,
but also an understanding of human nature. To
engender an optimal healing process, each doctor at
Sassoon tried to relate to each patient, regardless of differing
backgrounds. This dichotomy between physical
medicine and personal understanding is the biggest
challenge they face, and one we will all encounter in
medicine, wherever we choose to practice. I hope to
carry with me the ideals of both East and West, to
deliver the best holistic health care to my patients.
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Alumni Profile
Carden Johnston, M.D.
By Shane Ivey
Carden Johnston, M.D., F.A.A.P., may be,
quite literally, one of the most-watched
alumni of the UASOM. A distinguished
pediatrician, having earned numerous
appointments and awards, he also hosts a
weekly television spot with ratings that any
Hollywood mogul would envy.
Johnston was elected to the national leadership
of the American Academy of Pediatrics
in 2002, and will serve until 2004. It seems a
fitting milestone for his 40 years of service,
most of them spent doing what he loves
best—caring for children.
An Alabama native, Johnston attended
Ensley High School and the University of
Alabama, and then the Medical College of
Alabama in Birmingham (which later became
the UASOM). He became interested in pediatrics
in medical school. “It was a good course,”
he says. “I enjoyed the patients, their parents,
and the physicians I was working with.”
He followed medical school with a term in
the U.S. Air Force. He did a pediatric residency
at Tulane University, a one-year rotation at
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick
Children in London, and a stint in Hawaii with
the Kaiser Permanente Foundation. After three
years in Hawaii, Johnson and his family wanted
to get back to their roots. (“To my roots!” he
says, laughing; his wife, Susie, is from Eden,
New York, a small town near Buffalo.) He practiced
in Guntersville, Alabama for three years
and then taught at the Huntsville branch of the
UASOM for a year. A pediatric opening came in
Birmingham in 1975, and, as he puts it, “I’ve
been happily employed ever since!”
An emergency-room pediatrician, Johnston
routinely sees cases that others might find distressing.
But he regards it as a tremendous
opportunity. “I’ve been exceedingly pleased to
have chosen pediatrics,” he says. “It gives me
a chance to stand up for white-hat issues. It’s
easy to make the transition from emergency
department to prevention, because you see
the problems day by day. It makes you more
of an advocate.”
About 10 years ago, he launched the Kid
Check series on Birmingham’s NBC 13 News.
Kid Check is a 90-second television spot in
which Johnston talks to a patient and parent in
the UAB Hospital pediatric department, discussing
the nature of the child’s injury or illness
and instructing viewers on how to react if it happens
to them—or, better yet, how to prevent it
in the first place. Kid Check is now syndicated
nationally to 28 markets across the country,
viewed in more than 13 million homes.
Johnston welcomes his role in the American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which has advocacy,
professional education, and pediatric
research as its greatest concerns. Among the key
issues for Johnston and the AAP are financial
access to quality health care for all children, carseat
safety (thanks in part to Johnston’s advocacy,
Alabama was one of the first states in the
country to adopt a mandatory child safety seat
law in the 1970s), prevention of teenage pregnancy,
and the impact of the media.
Johnston is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians in London and a past
president of the Jefferson County Medical
Society. His awards include the Howard Holley
Award for Lay Education from the Medical
Association of the State of Alabama; the Hettie
Butler Terry Community Service Award from
the UASOM Alumni Association; the
President’s Award from the Alabama Chapter of
the AAP; an honorable mention for the UAB
School of Public Health’s Hero Award; the
Outstanding Achievement Award from the
American Academy of Pediatrics; the Media
Service Award from SafeKids; and the Wallace
Alexander Clyde Outstanding Service Award
from Children’s Hospital of Alabama.
Johnston will serve as president-elect of the
57,000-member American Academy of
Pediatrics until October 2003, and as president
from October 2003 to October 2004.
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Alumni Profile
Barry Wilson, M.D.
By Sandra Bearden
and medical educations), we’ll be supplying
the county with at least one doctor
on an ongoing basis.”
Wilson acknowledges that the selection
process will be a tough one. “We
want to find the right people—those
who really want to come home to practice
medicine,” he says.
After completing his undergraduate
degree from Auburn, Wilson enrolled at
the UASOM, graduating in 1967.
Following internships and residencies in
OB/GYN at Mobile General Hospital,
he began practicing medicine in
Montgomery. During 1975-77, he served
as president of the UASOM Medical
“We need to have at least $150,000 to $175,000
to make it a fully comprehensive scholarship
covering all expenses, so I encourage other UASOM
alumni to make additional donations.”
Flip through the hefty Birmingham
metro Yellow Pages directory, and you’ll
find about 60 pages of listings under
“Physicians and Surgeons.”
Do the same thing with one of the
state’s small-town directories, and you
may find two or three listings—or
maybe none.
So when Montgomery gynecologist
Barry Wilson, M.D., decided to make a
substantial donation to the UASOM, he
thought of Wedowee, his hometown in
rural Randolph County. His $100,000
gift to the School of Medicine will fund
the Melinda Kerr/Barry Wilson
Scholarship, awarded to a Randolph
County student who plans to return
home to practice family medicine.
“It’s my way of showing appreciation
to the School of Medicine, to Auburn
University, my alma mater, and to the
area where I grew up,” says Wilson, a
1967 UASOM graduate. The scholarship
is named for Wilson and his late wife,
who also was from Randolph County.
Scholarship recipients must be graduates
of a Randolph County high school
and commit to attending Auburn
University and the UASOM. Those
receiving the scholarship must also commit
to practicing family medicine in
Randolph County.
Those holding the Kerr/Wilson scholarship
also will have an opportunity to
study in the UASOM’s Rural Medical
Scholars Program. This is a highly selective
premed and medical school program
open annually to 10 students from rural
Alabama counties who plan to practice
in rural areas. Participants are involved in
special training, projects, and activities
related to rural medicine.
Wilson hopes to fund full tuition and
fees with interest from the donation.
“We need to have at least $150,000 to
$175,000 to make it a fully comprehensive
scholarship covering all expenses,”
he says, “so I encourage other UASOM
alumni to make additional donations.”
First choice for the scholarship will
be a graduate of Randolph County
High School in Wedowee. According
to Wilson, no such student had the
grades and career goals to qualify for
the scholarship in 2002. Other applicants
from the county will be considered
if no RCHS senior qualifies in
two or three years. A committee from
Auburn’s College of Sciences and
Mathematics oversees the grant.
“The committee is looking for someone
with outstanding academic qualifications
who wants to return to Randolph
County to practice medicine,” he says.
“If we can identify one recipient every
eight years (the length of undergraduate
Alumni Association. During that time he
helped bring President Ronald Reagan
(then making his first run for the presidency)
to the UAB campus.
In addition to his involvement with
the UASOM alumni group, Wilson
also serves on the advisory board for
Auburn’s College of Sciences and
Mathematics.
“I’d like to encourage other doctors
to establish scholarships like this,” he
says. “It would be a good way for them
to recognize their hometowns, colleges,
and the School of Medicine. We need
more scholarships for rural family practice.
Nobody wants to go to small
towns anymore.”
Scholarships like Wilson’s may help
change that trend.
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medical alumni bulletin CLASS NOTES
1953
ROBERT D. GUYTON is the owner of The Lanata House hotel and
apartments in New Orleans, Louisiana. Guyton is a resident of these
apartments and is retired from his OB/GYN practice. For more information,
send e-mail to [lanatahs@bellsouth.net].
1962
RONALD EARL HENDERSON, a longtime obstetrician-gynecologist
and founder of Henderson & Walton Women’s Center in Birmingham,
Alabama, has written a book on myasthenia gravis (MG). The book,
Attacking Myasthenia Gravis: A Key in the Battle Against Autoimmune
Diseases (Court Street Press, $25.95), delves into issues related to MG,
other autoimmune diseases, and chronic diseases in general. Henderson
has also established the International Autoimmune Disease Research
Foundation (IADRF), dedicated to the battle against autoimmune diseases.
For more information, visit its Web site at [www.iadrf.org].
Henderson was forced to retire from his medical practice in 1994
because of muscle weakness and loss of strength and was diagnosed with
MG in 1995.
1965
RONALD W. CASE was promoted to clinical professor of ophthalmology
at the Medical College of the University of South Florida on August
1, 2002. He taught and managed the laser clinic for the Department of
Ophthalmology at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital of Tampa,
Florida, and was invited to lecture (“Laser Assaults on Law Enforcement
Aircraft/Advanced Laser Weapons”) at the annual meeting of the
Airborne Law Enforcement Association.
1967, 1973, and 1987 (RESIDENT)
J. MAXWELL AUSTIN, EDWARD PARTRIDGE, and RONALD
ALVAREZ, all UASOM professors of the Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, have been appointed to major positions in the Society of
Gynecologic Oncologists. Austin is president, Partridge is vice president,
and Alvarez is program chair for the 2003 meeting on women’s cancer,
held in New Orleans, Louisiana, in January 2003.
1968
DAVID W. HODO is chief of staff at Vaughan Memorial Hospital, a legislative
representative for the (national) Alabama Psychiatric Society, a
past board member of AQAF, and past chairman and council of MASA.
His books have been reviewed in JAMA and the American Journal of
Psychiatry. He is currently a resident of Selma, Alabama, where he specializes
in psychiatry.
1973
LOREN COOK OWENSBY of Victoria, Texas, was elected president of
the Texas Society for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy for 2002-2004.
1973
N. H. “BO” TUCKER III of Jacksonville,
Florida, has been recognized by the Florida
Chapter of the American College of Physicians-American
Society of Internal Medicine
for his dedication to the practice of internal
medicine. Tucker was awarded Florida’s
“Internist of the Year” at the regional meeting in
Palm Beach Gardens on September 21, 2002.
1979
HARRY W. KUBERG started a rural medical practice in Russellville,
Alabama, after retiring from the Air Force as a colonel in September of
2000. He has a Web site at [www.familydoctor.org/kuberg].
1980
KIMBERLEY J. HANSEN is professor of surgery, head of the Section on
Vascular Surgery, director of the Clinical Vascular Laboratory, and director
of the Vascular Surgery Residency Program at Wake Forest
University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
1988
STEPHEN P. SUGGS has been in private practice with Decatur
Neurology, P.C., in Decatur, Alabama, since 1992. He is president of the
Morgan County Medical Society and the immediate past-president of
the Kiwanis Club of Decatur, and he participates in Leadership
Alabama.
1989
PATRICIA M. MCCOY is co-owner of The Eye Center and is in private
practice in Huntsville, Alabama, her hometown.
1993
H. BARRETT MCDANIEL has finished seven years in general surgery
residency at Indiana University, followed by two years at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for his vascular surgery fellowship.
McDaniel is now practicing in Reno, Nevada.
1994
LOREN EDWARD MCCOY has been elected a Fellow of the American
College of Physicians—American Society of Internal Medicine, the society
of internists, by his peers. He is chairman of medicine at Shoals
Hospital, vice president of the Colbert County Medical Society, and a
member of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama. He is also
on the staff of Helen Keller Memorial Hospital in Sheffield, Alabama.
1997
TIMOTHY KEITH BULLOCK
recently joined Jerry L. Kitchens, Jr.,
M.D., graduate 1987; Charles R.
Schumate, M.D.; Richard I.
Kirkland, M.D., graduate 1986;
and Richard Abernathy, M.D.; at
Surgical Associates, P.C. Their offices
are located at Brookwood Medical
Center, St. Vincent’s Hospital, and
Baptist Medical Center Montclair.
Bullock specializes in general surgery
and surgical oncology.
1997
GEORGE ANDREW “DREW” CORBETT recently completed his
orthopaedic surgical residency program at Ochsner Clinic in New
Orleans, Louisiana, where he was awarded the Outstanding
Resident/Fellow Award by his fellow residents. He is currently in
Cincinnati, Ohio, for a sports medicine fellowship. Corbett is married
to Lyn Corbett and has a nine-month-old daughter, Emily.
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2000 (FELLOWSHIP)
WILLIAM J. HARRIS III, of Madison,
Mississippi, works at the Cardiovascular Surgical
Clinic in Jackson, Mississippi. He is also clinical
assistant professor of surgery at the University of
Mississippi Medical Center.
2001
ANGELA LEIGH CLIFTON, of the Rural
Medical Scholar Program (RMSP), is from
Walnut Grove, Alabama, and graduated summa
cum laude from the UASOM. She is in family
practice residency training in Metairie, Louisiana.
ANNE BRUNS DAVIS, of the RMSP, is from
Talladega, Alabama, and received her M.D.
from the UASOM and an M.P.H. from UAB.
She is an internal medicine resident at UAB
Hospital and is interested in pursuing geriatrics.
KEVIN SCOTT ELLIS, of the RMSP, is from
Albertville, Alabama, and graduated summa
cum laude from the UASOM (and received a
pediatric award). He is in pediatric residency
training at Children’s Hospital in Birmingham.
THOMAS DANIEL HOLT, of the RMSP, is
from Elba, Alabama, and is in the Huntsville
Family Practice Residency Program. He plans
to practice in rural southeast Alabama.
PAUL DRAKE LAVENDER, JR., of the
RMSP, is from Eutaw, Alabama, and graduated
cum laude from UASOM. He is a firstyear
resident in Tuscaloosa’s Family Practice
Residency Program.
STEPHANIE MICHELE MORGAN, of the
RMSP, is from Cedar Bluff, Alabama, and won
the Family Medicine Award at UASOM’s 2001
Honors Convocation for medical students. She
is completing a family practice residency in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
ELIZABETH RANDALL SMITH, of the
RMSP, is from Monroeville, Alabama, and
graduated with honors from the UASOM (and
won a pediatric award). She is a pediatric resident
at the University of Louisville.
PAUL BYRON TABEREAUX, of the RMSP, is
from Sheffield, Alabama. He graduated from the
UASOM with top honors and is in internal
medicine residency training at Yale-New Haven
Hospital in Connecticut. He plans to practice in
north Alabama.
ALUM BABES
1995
STEVEN PRESLEY and his wife Leanne announce the birth of their daughter, Leanne
Elizabeth (“Annabeth”) Presley, on April 24, 2002. Steven is in internal medicine in Enterprise,
Alabama. He and Leanne also have a three-year-old son, Ben.
IN MEMORIAM
CHALMERS D. COLLINS, 1928 alumnus of
the two-year school, died July 30, 2002. He was
a resident of Homewood, Alabama, and specialized
in general surgery.
HARRY ALBERT PARLATO, 1934 graduate
of the two-year school, died October 27, 2002.
He was a resident of Kensington, Connecticut,
and specialized in internal medicine.
JOHN MCADORY SLAUGHTER, 1940 alumnus
of the two-year school, died August 24, 2002.
He was a former president of the Jefferson County
Medical Society and Southeastern Surgical Society,
chairman of the Board of Censors, and a Fellow
and Diplomate of the American College of
Surgeons. He served nine years on the Jefferson
County Board of Health, including service as chairman
in the 1970s, and was a volunteer at Lakeshore
Rehabilitation Hospital and Foundation. Slaughter
was a resident of Birmingham, Alabama, and specialized
in general surgery.
LEWIS CROOK SHARMAN, 1943 graduate
of the two-year school, died June 21, 2002. He
was a resident of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and specialized
in psychiatry.
IRA BERTLING PATTON, class of 1947, died
December 4, 2002. He was a resident of Oneonta,
Alabama. In 1948, he and E. W. Gordon, M.D.,
established the first Oneonta hospital, where in
1954 he was the attending anesthesiologist/hypnotist
during the first thyroidectomy performed in
the United States. In the 1960s and 1970s, he
served as assistant clinical professor of medicine at
UAB and assisted in the development of the
Physician’s Assistant Program. He was the father of
David W. Patton, class of 1976, and the father-inlaw
of Rita Patton, class of 1974. He was named
Distinguished Alumnus of the UASOM in 1986.
He specialized in general surgery and medicine.
NORTON HUMPHREYS HUTCHISON,
class of 1950, died December 5, 2002. He was
a resident of Brentwood, Tennessee, and specialized
in internal and geriatric medicine.
JOHN EDWARD KENT, class of 1950, died
June 26, 2002. He was a resident of Birmingham,
Alabama, and specialized in general surgery.
JACK BARNEY MATICKA, class of 1950,
died July 1, 2002. He was a resident of Peoria,
Illinois, and specialized in occupational medicine
and urology.
GEORGE WEST MOSS, 1950 graduate,
1951 resident, died July 24, 2002. Moss was
born in Montgomery, Alabama May 26, 1913.
He was a resident of Natchez, Mississippi, and
specialized in general medicine.
JULIA AMANDA KEELYN, class of 1956,
died in 2002. She was a resident of Abilene,
Texas, and specialized in internal medicine.
ROBERT L. DORROUGH, resident 1957,
died November 6, 2002. He served in the 82nd
Airborne Division in World War II and was
awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star for
his service. Dorrough resided in Montgomery,
Alabama, and specialized in general surgery.
JAMES “JIM” CORCORAN DOYLE, class of
1958, died July 3, 2002. He was a resident of
Eufaula, Alabama, and specialized in radiology.
ORON THOMAS BOLDING, JR., class of
1960, died December 10, 2002. He was a resident
of Vestavia Hills, Alabama, and specialized
in obstetrics and gynecology.
MARTHA C. MYERS, class of 1971, died
December 30, 2002. A longtime missionary to
Yemen and a physician at Jibla Baptist Hospital,
she was killed along with three others when a
gunman opened fire on a staff meeting. She was
the daughter of Ira Lee Myers, class of 1949.
MAC WILLYS PORTER, class of 1971, died
November 3, 2002. A native of Blue Springs,
Alabama, Porter was a resident of Loganville,
Georgia. He had a private practice in general
medicine in Buford, Georgia.
MICHAEL FRANK BATTITO, SR., class of
1984 and resident 1987, died December 4,
2002. He was an associate professor of anesthesiology
at the UASOM in Birmingham, Alabama.
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In Appreciation
In Appreciation . . .
To the following alumni and friends of the University of Alabama School of Medicine for their support of the School of Medicine
through contributions to the Medical Alumni Association, the Building Fund, and the Caduceus Club, from October 1, 2001, to
September 30, 2002. The funds raised through alumni contributions are used to support school, student, and alumni programs.
One of the major sponsorships of the Medical Alumni Association is the annual Alumni Weekend, which brings alumni and other
physicians back together for continuing education seminars and class reunions. Receptions for alumni, faculty of the school, and friends
are sponsored by the association during national, regional, and state professional meetings. The association also sponsors student organizations,
travel fellowships, scholarships, student funds, senior class night, yearbook advertising, and white coats for first-year students, as
well as the MedCareers program, the Medical Student Enrichment program, and the Argus Society annual awards program.
The Caduceus Club provides travel fellowships for students to travel for other medical experiences. It also gives awards to outstanding
faculty members and supports MIST and other programs.
The officers of the Medical Alumni Association, and the administration of the University of Alabama School of Medicine, wish to
express their appreciation to those listed for their generous contributions.
An asterisk indicates Caduceus Club membership.
Stephanie Patrice Acierno, Seattle, WA
John Howard Acker, Knoxville, TN
Christopher Denman Adams, Little Rock, AR
Eric Arthur Adams, Chesapeake, VA
George Wilburn Adams, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Jennifer Kash Adams, Chesapeake, VA
* Robert Barry Adams, Montgomery, AL
Robert Beaumont Akenhead, Huntsville, AL
Rush E. Akin, Panama City, FL
* Kenneth William Aldridge, Tuscaloosa, AL
Charles Aaron Alford, Jr., Birmingham, AL
David Wiley Alford, Dothan, AL
James Huston Alford, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Sami Thi Ali, Houston, TX
Bibb Allen, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Joe Clark Allen, Pensacola, FL
Jeffery Scott Allison, Pinson, AL
* Richard M. Allman, Birmingham, AL
* Jorge E. Alonso, Birmingham, AL
Steven G. Alsip, Mobile, AL
M. Wade Alverson, Jr., Opelika, AL
* J. Noble Anderson, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Mark Monroe Anderson, Montgomery, AL
William Anthony Anderson, Baton Rouge, LA
* James Peter Argires, Lancaster, PA
Perry James Argires, Lancaster, PA
James Harris Armstrong, Jr., Montgomery, AL
* William Mark Armstrong, Dallas, TX
Thomas W. Arnold, Memphis, TN
Valerie Kaplan Arnold, Memphis, TN
* John Malone Ashurst, Jr., Montgomery, AL
* Robert George Atnip, Hershey, PA
Charles Wadsworth Atwood, Jr., Pittsburgh, PA
* James Maxwell Austin, Jr., Mountain Brook, AL
Jack Monroe Averett, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Daniel Mason Avery, Winfield, AL
Robert Neal Axon, Durham, NC
David Abraham Azar, Childersburg, AL
Kathryne Kospetos Azar, Childersburg, AL
Virgil Thomas Baccus, Cullman, AL
Jimmie Dale Bailey II, Prattville, AL
John Doyle Bailey, Moss Point, MS
Julie Anna Baird, Dallas, TX
Lawrence Vernon Baker, Jasper, AL
* Oliver Charles Baker, Birmingham, AL
* Roy Powell Baker, Savannah, GA
Robert Lindon Baldwin, Birmingham, AL
James Wayland Ballard, Birmingham, AL
Timothy S. Baltz, Tuscaloosa, AL
Lee Anne Bankaitis, Chapel Hill, NC
Jason Thomas Banks, Birmingham, AL
Amol Shrikrishna Bapat, Houston, TX
Andrea Elizabeth Barber, Houston, TX
Judson William Barber, Birmingham, AL
Thomas Macdonough Barbour III, Mobile, AL
Mark Luther Barnard, Darlington, SC
Harry McGwinn Barnes III, Montgomery, AL
Roy M. Barnes, Port Gibson, MS
William Lawrence Barnwell, Dalton, GA
Robert Edward Barr, Birmingham, AL
Valry Ward Barr, Jr., Lancaster, PA
Melissa Lewis Barton, Maplewood, MN
John Burrell Bass, Jr., Mobile, AL
Brian Anthony Bates, Birmingham, AL
Gregory Charles Batson, Huntsville, AL
* Aubrey Thomas Baugh, Jr., Birmingham, AL
James K. Bazemore, Jr., Savannah, GA
Donald Eugene Beach, Moulton, AL
Joseph Benjamin Beaird, Jr., Birmingham, AL
* William Harvey Bearden III, Salt Lake City, UT
Howard Harold Bearman, Birmingham, AL
William Edward Beasley, Jr., Athens, AL
Edward Stewart Beason, Winston-Salem, NC
Robert Fred Beckman, Webster Groves, MO
Marie Elaine Beckner, Pittsburgh, PA
Dalton Anthony Bedsole, Birmingham, AL
Brenda Berman Bell, Indian Springs, AL
John Lawrence Bell, Knoxville, TN
Willie Woodrow Bell, Jr., Jacksonville, FL
John Michael Belyeu, Albertville, AL
Edward James Benak, Jr., Dothan, AL
Frank Charles Benesh, Trussville, AL
Regina Marcia Benjamin, Spanish Fort, AL
Sanders Martin Benkwith, Montgomery, AL
Ann Bennett, Florence, AL
Austen LeGrande Bennett III, Birmingham, AL
* John William Benton, Jr., Birmingham, AL
William Scott Berger, Winston Salem, NC
Joe Jackson Bethany, Jr., Eutaw, AL
William M. Bethea, Jr., Virginia Beach, VA
George Marvin Bilbrey, Jr., Asheville, NC
Thomas Keener Billups, Tupelo, MS
Sarah Lynn Bisch, Baltimore, MD
Clyde Edward Black, Anniston, AL
Judson Gregory Black, Atlanta, GA
Robert Lee Black III, Birmingham, AL
Sumpter Dudley Blackmon, Camden, AL
Jack Blackwell, Centre, AL
Mary Anne Blake, Nashville, TN
Laurel Claire Blakemore, Ann Arbor, MI
* Kirby Isaac Bland, Birmingham, AL
Alexander Lee Blankenship, Mobile, AL
Harold Lloyd Blanton, Cullman, AL
Jane McClure Blaum, Fairhope, AL
Richard Frederic Bliss, Talladega, AL
Patricia Ann Block, Troy, AL
Michael Francis Blum, Birmingham, AL
William Raymond Blythe, Auburn, AL
Charles C. Boackle, Birmingham, AL
Susan Angelle Boackle, Denver, CO
Lynn Amy Boardman, Greenville, SC
Phillip Kelley Bobo, Tuscaloosa, AL
Gerhard A. W. Boehm, Mobile, AL
John Wilson Boggess IV, Guntersville, AL
Robert Pearce Bolling, Mobile, AL
Larry Taylor Bolton, Scottsoro, AL
Theresa Joseph Bolus, Birmingham, AL
William Richard Bonner, Atlanta, GA
Emily Boohaker-Issa, Birmingham, AL
Marshall Nolan Boone, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Thomas Stewart Boozer, Montgomery, AL
David Charles Bosshardt, Chickamauga, GA
H. Chester Boston, Jr., Tuscaloosa, AL
Samuel Robert Bowen II, Birmingham, AL
Stephen Robert Bowen, Sylacauga, AL
James Shelby Bowron, Jr., Atlanta, GA
Allie Cosper Boyd III, Tuscaloosa, AL
Gary Louis Boyd, Birmingham, AL
* Gwendolyn Louise Boyd, Birmingham, AL
James Edward Boyle, Decatur, AL
Brice Herald Brackin, Alabaster, AL
Eugene Headley Bradley, Centre, AL
Robert Hugh Bradley, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Susan Ferguson Bradley, Birmingham, AL
Donald Taylor Bragg, Birmingham, AL
Kenneth Wayne Bramlett, Mountain Brook, AL
Jack W. Brand, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Oliver Brian Brand, Birmingham, AL
Jeffrey Randall Brant, Kingston, GA
Joseph Kirven Brantley, Jr., Montgomery, AL
David Watterson Branyon, Hickory, NC
Michael Hugh Brasfield, Jasper, AL
Maury Bert Bray III, Albertville, AL
Charles Warren Breaux, Jr., Fruita, CO
Donna Lee Breen, Marksville, LA
Gayne M. Brenneman, Palos Verdes Estates, CA
Charles Boyre Brentnall, Jr., Sylacauga, AL
Marshall Lee Brewer, Sioux Falls, SD
Michael Eric Brewer, Birmingham, AL
Dick Dowling Briggs III, Birmingham, AL
Elizabeth Donahoo Briggs, Birmingham, AL
Edward N. Brin, Franklin, TN
James Christopher Britton, Galax, VA
William Edward Broach III, Danville, VA
James Carl Brock, Birmingham, AL
Kathryn Clipson Brock, Birmingham, AL
C. Paul Brooke, Idaho Falls, ID
H. Belk Brooks, Columbus, GA
James Gordon Brooks, Jr., Dallas, TX
John Robert Brouillette, Birmingham, AL
Andrew Marion Brown, Gadsden, AL
D. Allen Brown, New Orleans, LA
James Brooks Brown, Jacksonville, FL
James Edward Brown IV, Spartanburg, SC
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In Appreciation
Kimberly Sue Brown, Albany, GA
* Richard Evans Brown, Montgomery, AL
Robert Charles Brown, Fairhope, AL
Emmett Herschel Broxson, Jr., Dayton, OH
Krista Lynn Brunner, Cincinatti, OH
R. Don Bryan, Alabaster, AL
Robert Maurice Bryan, Birmingham, AL
James Edward Bryant, Birmingham, AL
Paty Bargeron Bryant, Birmingham, AL
William Prince Bryant, Birmingham, AL
Peyton Randolph Bryars III, San Francisco, CA
Roger Stanford Buck, Gadsden, AL
* Anton Joslyn Bueschen, Birmingham, AL
Louis Edward Buettner, Tuscaloosa, AL
Theodis Buggs, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Cecil H. Bullard, Fresno, CA
Peter Douglas Bunting, Birmingham, AL
Mark Wayne Burlingame, Lancaster, PA
Douglas George Burnette, Jr., Flint, TX
John Francis Burnum, Tuscaloosa, AL
Maida Louise Burrow, Grand Junction, CO
Mark Wesley Burton, Marion, NC
Jeffrey Wayne Bush, Eufaula, AL
Charles Francis Butler, Kalamazoo, MI
Melvin Lynn Butler, Irving, TX
Ruth Murray Byram, Dothan, AL
Ben Ralph Byrd, Dothan, AL
Rebecca Randolph Byrd, Birmingham, AL
James B. Byrne, Huntsville, AL
Michael Edward Cadra, Oakdale, CA
Albert Steven Cain, Ogden, UT
Richard Kermit Caldwell, Gadsden, AL
* Tom Oliver Caldwell, Birmingham, AL
Wallace Everette Calhoun, Jr., Moss Point, MS
* Michael Alston Callahan, Birmingham, AL
John Minge Cameron, Montgomery, AL
Paul Louis Cammack, Montgomery, AL
* Ernest Sheppard Campbell, Jr.,
Orange Beach, AL
John Emory Campbell, Camp Hill, AL
John Hugh Campbell, Gadsden, AL
Lamar McWhorter Campbell, Ashville, AL
* Grant B. Cannon, Salt Lake City, UT
Donald Anthony Cantley, Jr., Henderson, KY
Eli Ralph Capouya, San Marino, CA
* Waldemar A. Carlo, Birmingham, AL
John Terry Carlson, Tuscaloosa, AL
Lawrence Earl Carlton, Houston, TX
Laurence Cothran Carmichael, Muscle Shoals, AL
Dalton Remell Carpenter, Warner Robins, GA
James Robert Carpenter, Prattville, AL
Robert Henley Carpenter, Columbus, GA
John Carson Carter, Mountain Brook, AL
John Jefferson Carter, Florence, AL
Lee Carson Carter, Birmingham, AL
O. B. Carter, Jr., Albany, GA
Richard Devore Carter, Birmingham, AL
Clark L. Carthrae, Bowling Green, KY
P. Michael Caruso, Huntsville, AL
Janet Johnson Cash, Vestavia Hills, AL
Thomas Gene Cash, Birmingham, AL
* Laura Layden Cassidy, Baton Rouge, LA
Raul A. Castillo, Yuma, AZ
Frank Merriman Cauthen, Athens, AL
Resit Cem Cezayirli, Birmingham, AL
James George Chambers III, Huntsville, AL
* Adrian Ahas Chandler, Rainbow City, AL
Connie Ann Chandler, Ozark, AL
Jerry Wayne Chandler, Birmingham, AL
Steven Cecil Chandler, Decatur, AL
Sheng H. Chang, Arcadia, CA
* Gregory Douglas Chapman, Vestavia Hills, AL
Lee Barton Chapman, Birmingham, AL
Lucy Gravlee Chapman, Birmingham, AL
William R. Chapman III, Brownsboro, AL
Robert Willis Chappell, Jr., Brownsboro, AL
Seaborn M. Chappell, Florence, AL
Thomas Harris Chase, Auburn, AL
Hoyt Abner Childs, Jr., Hampton Cove, AL
Orvis Hugh Chitwood III, Dothan, AL
Christine Marra Choat, Peachtree City, GA
Dennis Edward Choat, Peachtree City, GA
Tasnee Chonmaitree, Houston, TX
Robert Harold Christenberry, Nashville, TN
Craig Huron Christopher, Birmingham, AL
* Neil Edward Christopher, Guntersville, AL
William Pearson Clack, Sarasota, FL
Charles Hobart Clark III, Birmingham, AL
Dennis Mark Clark, Birmingham, AL
Eugene Cliff Clark, Albany, GA
Glenn Luther Clark, Marianna, FL
James Allen Clark III, Montgomery, AL
* Joseph William Clark, Huntsville, AL
Kendall Robert Clark, Fayetteville, NC
Robert Masters Clark, Columbia, SC
Kerry McCarthy Cleary, Birmingham, AL
James Allen Clemmons, Chipley, FL
Benny Ray Cleveland, Boerne, TX
Robert Smith Cleveland, Dothan, AL
P. Ruth Cline, Athens, GA
Michael Steven Clinton, Birmingham, AL
Charles Glenn Cobbs, Birmingham, AL
Charles Stringfellow Cobbs, Birmingham, AL
Bry Henry Coburn, Birmingham, AL
Bradley M. Cochran, Fort Payne, AL
Gerald Tyrone Cochran, Mentone, AL
John Gus Cocoris, Birmingham, AL
Craig Louis Coe, Dothan, AL
Armand Bennet Cognetta, Jr., Tallahassee, FL
Jerome Barry Cohen, Port Charlotte, FL
Stanley Bruce Cohen, Dallas, TX
Samuel Kline Cohn, Birmingham, AL
Albert Steinhart Coker, Jr., Mobile, AL
Spencer James Coleman, Wetumpka, AL
* Stephen Lanier Coleman, Birmingham, AL
Thomas Wheatley Coleman, Mobile, AL
William Hardin Coleman, Jr., Scottsboro, AL
Mark Green Coley, Mobile, AL
Mitchell Lynn Collins, Conway, AR
Edward Veston Colvin, Birmingham, AL
N. Cassandra Comer, Birmingham, AL
Gregrey Alan Compton, Litchfield Park, AZ
Charles Fred Conner, Dothan, AL
Michael Gus Conner, Trussville, AL
C. Dobbin Connor, St. Louis, MO
Arthur Emanuel Constantine, Nashville, TN
Vincent Roy Conti, Galveston, TX
Malcolm Cade Cook, Bessemer, AL
Randall Green Cook, Montgomery, AL
Timothy Alden Cool, Birmingham, AL
George Nelson Cooper, Jr., Alexander City, AL
Katharine Robinson Cooper, Alexander City, AL
* Max Dale Cooper, Birmingham, AL
Kenneth Rodney Copeland, Sr., Sheffield, AL
Sage Donald Copeland, Decatur, AL
Sage Kinney Copeland, Decatur, AL
George Andrew Corbett, Cincinnati, OH
James Robert Corcoran, Metaire, LA
Richard Harvey Cord, Chelsea, AL
W. J. Cornay III, Birmingham, AL
* David Henry Cornell, Atlanta, GA
Donald Ray Cornutt, Jr., Marietta, GA
* Timothy Alexander Correll, Madison, WI
Hugh Cort III, Birmingham, AL
Howard Brooks Cotten, Birmingham, AL
Clement Patrick Cotter, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Robert Harold Couch, Louisville, KY
Norton Ethelbert Cowart, Huntsville, AL
Artemus Jennings Cox III, Birmingham, AL
Harold Marcus Cox, Redding, CA
Rabon B. Cox, Jr., Florence, AL
* Daniel Joseph Coyle, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Samuel Ferrell Crabtree, Anniston, AL
L. Gary Craddock, Anniston, AL
Larry Wayne Craddock, Waxhaw, NC
Robert Quenton Craddock, Birmingham, AL
Charles Arthur Crago, Albuquerque, NM
Michael Ray Crain, Birmingham, AL
Blain Alan Crandell, Provo, UT
Carroll Sanders Crawford, Foley, AL
* Wynne Crawford, Montgomery, AL
Hilda Bernice Craze, Guntersville, AL
* William Dodson Creighton, Brawley, CA
Jay Hill Crenshaw, Birmingham, AL
* Marta Ann Crispens, Nashville, TN
Henry Crommelin, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Charles Dudley Cross II, Jasper, AL
DeWitte Talmadge Cross III, Clayton, MO
M. Richard Cross, Mobile, AL
Richard Clark Cross, Meridian, MS
William Archie Crotwell III, Mobile, AL
Charles Brandon Crow III, Birmingham, AL
A. Derrill Crowe, Birmingham, AL
Jeffery Ray Cryar, Altamonte Springs, FL
John Dory Curtis, Jr., Vestavia, AL
Richard John Cyrus, Montgomery, AL
Charles Barry Dabbs, Gadsden, AL
Jack M. Dabbs, Bessemer, AL
Donald Henry Dahlene II, Montgomery, AL
George Eugene Dailey III, Solana Beach, CA
Paul S. Dale, Macon, GA
Martin Lester Dalton, Jr., Macon, GA
Rory Ralph Dalton, Augusta, GA
Carlton Ralph Daniel III, Jackson, MS
James Sloan Daniel, Marietta, GA
* Lilia Starr Daniel, Montgomery, AL
Robert R. Daniel, Montgomery, AL
Charles William Daniels, Mobile, AL
Larkin Jeffrey Daniels, Mobile, AL
David D. Darden, Ocoee, TN
Udaya Nath Dash, Bonita Springs, FL
Manuel Preston Daugherty, Jr., Mobile, AL
Raphael D’Auria, Decatur, GA
John Thomas Davidson, Birmingham, AL
Julius David Davidson, Shoal Creek, AL
Thomas John Davidson III, Gulf Shores, AL
James Edward Davies, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Archie Graham Davis, Mobile, AL
James Austin Davis III, Birmingham, AL
James Grady Davis, Birmingham, AL
Jimmy Wayne Davis, Talladega, AL
John Lee Davis III, Arcadia, OK
* Jordan Kent Davis, Boca Raton, FL
Maxie Leroy Davis, Indian Springs, AL
Michael Rayner Davis, Mobile, AL
Richard Oliver Davis, Birmingham, AL
Stephen Alvin Davis, Mobile, AL
Bruce Edward Day, Hendersonville, TN
Samuel M. Day, Jr., Jacksonville, FL
William Duggan De Buys, Cincinnati, OH
Manuel Trevino De Los Santos, San Antonio, TX
* William Brown Deal, Birmingham, AL
Larry Stephen Dean, Seattle, WA
Alpheus Monroe Deason, Jr., Birmingham, AL
William Chester Deavor, Selma, AL
William T. Deeter III, Greenville, SC
John Webster Degroote, Hurley, MS
Donald Anthony Deinlein, Birmingham, AL
Alan Scott DeJarnette, Key West, FL
Steven Eugene Dekich, Auburn, AL
Craig Martin DeLisi, Tulsa, OK
Oscar David Dellinger III, Atlanta, GA
Maurice Ernest Dennis, Jr., Rainbow City, AL
Robert Campbell Denny, Jr., Guntersville, AL
* Richard Denson DeShazo, Brandon, MS
Leisa Watterson DeVenny, Tuscaloosa, AL
Michael Frederick DeVenny, Tuscaloosa, AL
Fred Ferris Diegmann, Fairhope, AL
Jerry Dean Dillard, Selma, AL
Stephenie Cyd Dillard, Tuscaloosa, AL
* Alan Robert Dimick, Birmingham, AL
Robert Marshall Dimick, Nashville, TN
Thomas John DiNella, Nashville, TN
Bruce Michael DiPlacido, Huntsville, AL
Steven P. Disch, Alpharetta, GA
William Ernest Dismukes, Birmingham, AL
Ricki D. Dobbs, Montgomery, AL
William Herbert Dodson, Birmingham, AL
David Loyd Doering, Anchorage, KY
E. Michael Donner III, Mandeville, LA
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In Appreciation
Robert Prince Doolittle, Greensboro, NC
W. Daniel Doty, Pensacola, FL
Thomas Frank Dowling IV, Gadsden, AL
Daveta Best Dozier, Thomasville, AL
Frank Leonard Dozier, Thomasville, AL
Philip Mathew Dozier, Dothan, AL
Roy Morris Driggers, Dothan, AL
* Gregory Paul Driskill, Guntersville, AL
Frank David Druhan, Opelika, AL
Lee Burnette DuBois, Vestavia Hills, AL
Christopher Roger Duggar, Montgomery, AL
David Earl Dunn, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Julius Ethelbert Dunn, Jr., Wetumpka, AL
Teresa V. K. Durbin, Layton, UT
Samuel Christopher Durso, Baltimore, MD
Charles Louis Dyas, Jr., Daphne, AL
* Thomas L. Eby, Birmingham, AL
David B. Edmonds, Las Vegas, NV
Winlove Pabellan Eduarte, Kingwood, TX
John Lee Edwards, Birmingham, AL
Russell Philip Edwards , San Diego, CA
Thomas Henry Edwards III, Birmingham, AL
* Winston Tacker Edwards, Montgomery, AL
Karl Emerson Egerman, Hollywood, FL
B. Shelby Eich II, Birmingham, AL
Mark Samuel Eich, Orange Park, FL
Susan Horton Eiland, Birmingham, AL
* John Durr Elmore, Birmingham, AL
Brian Wade Elrod, Montgomery, AL
Bruce Allison Elrod, Chattanooga, TN
Richard Penn Embrey, Springfield, IL
Bonnie Maloy Embry, Birmingham, AL
Joseph Haden Embry, Birmingham, AL
* Orizaba Emfinger, Union Springs, AL
Allen Ark-Poy Eng, Pocatello, ID
Samuel Martin Engelhardt III, Montgomery, AL
Larry W. Epperson, Montgomery, AL
Paul Campbell Erwin, Townsend, TN
Richard Henry Esham, Mobile, AL
Grant Evan Eudy, Stockbridge, GA
* Vilma Caridad Fabré, Louisville, KY
Charles Grover Fagan, Birmingham, AL
Mari McGoff Fahrner, Webster Groves, MO
* N. Frank Fain, Jr., Indialantic, FL
* William Edwin Fann, Houston, TX
Michael Browning Farnell, Rochester, MN
Rosemary Haynes Faust, Homewood, AL
John P. K. Featheringill, Birmingham, AL
Richard Minton Feist, Birmingham, AL
William Chinglih Feng, Providence, RI
Emmet F. Ferguson, Jr., Jacksonville, FL
John Albert Fincher, Jr., Bristol, TN
John Lee Finklea, Montgomery, AL
Sara Crews Finley, Birmingham, AL
* Wayne House Finley, Birmingham, AL
Susan Newsom Finney, Wyoming, OH
Samuel Fischer III, Birmingham, AL
James Brent Fisher, Lewiston, ID
Robert Theodore Fitzgerald, Hondo, TX
Maurice Joseph Fitz-Gerald, Demopolis, AL
William Oliver Fitzpatrick III, Birmingham, AL
Isadore Keith Fleisher, Birmingham, AL
Charles Tennant Fletcher, Jr., Montgomery, AL
* Joseph Wheeler Flippen III, Florence, AL
Robert Elliott Flowers, Dothan, AL
Paige Bill Follo, Greensboro, NC
Pink Lowe Folmar, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Phillip Dewey Foshee, Clanton, AL
William Stuart Foshee, Martinez, GA
Glenn Lyon Foster, Loma Linda, CA
James Milton Foster, Sugarloaf, FL
Raetta Bevan Fountain, Grimesland, NC
Gary Matthew Fowler, Winfield, AL
Michael Davis Fox, Jacksonville, FL
* Susan Ray Frederick, Denver, CO
Paul Elliot Free, Anniston, AL
Edgar Shields Frey, Birmingham, AL
Lauren Christine Frey, New York, NY
Johanna Selikoff Fricke, Las Vegas, NV
Herman Joseph Fritz, Tuscaloosa, AL
Roy Tyler Frizzell, Boise, ID
Andra Rixse Frost, Birmingham, AL
Linda Tribble Frye, Mc Lean, VA
Scott Russell Fulgham, Pelham, AL
Daniel Edward Gadzala, Enterprise, AL
August V. Gafford, Nashville, TN
J. Allyson Driggers Gallagher, Guilford, CT
Roy Edward Gandy, Atmore, AL
Herbert Huey Gannon, Jr., Dothan, AL
David Allen Garcia, Albuquerque, NM
Sharon Foster Gardepe, Huntsville, AL
Steiner Darby Garrett, Jr., Mobile, AL
George Francis Gates III, Anchorage, AK
Andrew Jackson Gay, Jr., Belfast, ME
Madison Waller Gay, Winter Park, FL
David Dunn Gayle, Dothan, AL
Louise Roach Geary-Billingsley, Eclectic, AL
Michael James Geer, Birmingham, AL
Richard John Geer, Nashville, TN
James Howard Gentry, Jr., Aliceville, AL
Jeffrey R. George, Birmingham, AL
James Daniel Geyer, Tuscaloosa, AL
Cyrus Ghavam, Huntsville, AL
Larry Mack Gibbs, Birmingham, AL
Carl Anthony Gibson, University Place, WA
Timothy Blaise Gibson, Athens, GA
Garnett J. Giesler, Jr., La Grange, GA
Frederick Emerson Gilbert, Jr., Newnan, GA
Jill Gilbert, New Orleans, LA
S. Nixon Gillespie, Moulton, AL
Thomas Arthur Gillespie, Poway, CA
Regina Phillips Gilliland, Birmingham, AL
Joseph William Glaister, Florence, AL
Wolfram Glaser, Birmingham, AL
* Richard David Glasgow, Birmingham, AL
* Henry Goodwin Glass, Houston, TX
John Jacob Gleysteen, Birmingham, AL
Martin Cochran Glover, Montgomery, AL
John Rickey Gober, Vinemont, AL
Ronald Lee Godbold, Jr., Asheville, NC
* William Newton Godfree, Jr., Gadsden, AL
John Edward Godwin, Bartlett, IL
Gloria Romeo Gogola, Houston, TX
Jon Ramon Gogola, Houston, TX
Ronald Irwin Goldberg, Birmingham, AL
Edward Lawrence Goldblatt, Alabaster, AL
Morton Goldfarb, Birmingham, AL
Warren Dale Goldstein, Colorado Spgs., CO
Jorge Luis Gonzalez, Lakeland, FL
Harrison Malone Goodall, Tuscaloosa, AL
John Mansell Gooding, Panama City, FL
David Lamar Goodman, Littleton, CO
Charles Michael Graham, Birmingham, AL
* James Herbert Graham, Winston Salem, NC
Jeffrey Scott Graham, Dothan, AL
Daryl Keith Granger, Dothan, AL
Edwin Harris Grant, Carrollton, GA
Larry Wells Grant, Macon, GA
Joseph Frank Gravlee, Jr., Fairhope, AL
Edwin Ronald Gray, Hampton Cove, AL
Robert Morris Gray, Sylacauga, AL
Samuel Eugene Gray, Birmingham, AL
Cynthia Joyce Greathouse, Birmingham, AL
Cara Grady Greco, Huntsville, AL
John Joseph Greco, Huntsville, AL
James Ellis Green, Gainesville, GA
William Rodgers Green, Mobile, AL
Mark Greenberg, Tyler, TX
Thomas Edward Greene, Lansdale, PA
Annette Elissa Grefe, Billings, MT
Cathy Lynn Gresham, Tuscaloosa, AL
Carol Ann Griffin, Birmingham, AL
* Warren Leighton Griffin, Jr., Macon, GA
* Robert David Griffith, Tuscaloosa, AL
Larry Dewey Grimes, Gadsden, AL
Gary White Gross, Athens, AL
Scott Alan Grumley, Birmingham, AL
Gilbert Truett Guffin, Gardendale, AL
Drew Jeffrey Gunnells, Birmingham, AL
Jerry Nolan Gurley, Talladega, AL
Robert David Guyton, New Orleans, LA
Ellen Willard Haenlein, Southern Pines, NC
Charles Allen Hagen, Florence, AL
Kenneth Jeffrey Hager, Jasper, AL
* Roy Thomas Hager, Montgomery, AL
Gerard Donald Haggstrom, Florence, AL
Robert Martin Hagler, Dothan, AL
Martha Hagood, Columbia, AL
E. David Haigler, Jr., Birmingham, AL
M. Wyatt Haisten, Beaumont, TX
Carla Zoe Halacker, San Diego, CA
Rhonda Telette Halcomb, Nashville, TN
Bernard T. Hale, Montgomery, AL
Heather Ramey Haley, Birmingham, AL
Jeffrey Stuart Hall, Summerville, SC
R. Bruce Hall, Dothan, AL
Robin Tate Hall, Cullman, AL
W. Michael Hall, Cullman, AL
Melanie Hamner Halvorson, Montgomery, AL
Lon Powell Hamby, Lexington, SC
James Victor Hamilton, Alexander City, AL
Ronald Fredrick Hammett, W. Monroe, LA
D. Alan Hammond, Memphis, TN
Lewis Herschel Hamner III, Atlanta, GA
Kay M. Hamrick, The Woodlands, TX
Jacqueline Patrice Hancock, Calera, AL
George Mathews Handey, Montgomery, AL
Gregory Andrew Hanissian, Cordova, TN
Jefferson Daniel Hanks, Jr., Rome, GA
Hamner Hannah III, Leawood, KS
G. Duggan Hannon, Salt Lake City, UT
Kenneth Moore Hannon, Mobile, AL
Kimberley J. Hansen, Winston-Salem, NC
Joseph Gibson Hardin, Jr., Mobile, AL
Charles William Hardwick, Sanford, FL
William Edward Hardwick, Jr., Birmingham, AL
* Joanie Hare-Morris, Houston, TX
John Lytle Harlan, Birmingham, AL
Jason Michael Harmon, Ormond Beach, FL
Howard Clayton Harper, Jr., Mobile, AL
Andrew Gaines Harrell, Houston, TX
Hugh Geister Harris, Springfield, MO
James Burdick Harris, Bossier City, LA
Patricia Kay Harris, Gardendale, AL
Donald Carey Harrison, Cincinnati, OH
J. R. Hutchinson Harrison, Carrollton, GA
James Max Harrison, Jr., Mobile, AL
John Morris Harrison, Lexington, KY
* John Harsany, Jr., Hemet, CA
Carter Sibley Harsh, Birmingham, AL
Christopher John Hart, Alpharetta, GA
Michael Thayer Hartsfield, Pace, FL
William Mudd Haskell, Cincinnati, OH
Jack Harold Hasson, Birmingham, AL
Clifford Jackson Hataway, Montgomery, AL
Donald Gary Hawkins, Eclectic, AL
William Kirkland Hawley, Birmingham, AL
Van Buren Hayne, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Russell Nesbit Haynes, Birmingham, AL
Sharon Marlow Haynes, Tempe, GA
Melvin L. Haysman, Savannah, GA
Mark Glenn Haywood, Duluth, GA
Charles Moreland Head, New Bern, NC
Sanders F. Hearne, Shreveport, LA
Phillip Martin Heidepriem, Montgomery, AL
Robert Henry Heilpern, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Sherron Ruth Helms, Richardson, TX
George Philamon Hemstreet IV, Birmingham, AL
Gary Lynn Henderson, Tucson, AZ
R. Winn Henderson, Sylva, NC
Robert Lee Henderson, Woodbine, MD
* Ronald Earl Henderson, Birmingham, AL
Margaret Lee Henry, Orange Beach, AL
Heidi Burry Henslee, Oklahoma City, OK
John Murdock Herion, Wilmington, NC
Robin Wynne Herion, Wilmington, NC
Vernon L. Hermecz, Fairhope, AL
Forest Stephen Herrington, Huntsville, AL
Heather Leigh Herrington, Houston, TX
Chester Cleveland Hicks, Jr., Gadsden, AL
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In Appreciation
* Julius Norton Hicks, Birmingham, AL
Phillip Alan Hicks, Selma, AL
John Allan Higginbotham, Huntsville, AL
Hilary Thomas Hight, Kennesaw, GA
* Samuel Richardson Hill, Jr., Birmingham, AL
William Anderson Hill, Jr., Tuscaloosa, AL
William Ernest Hill, Carrollton, AL
Edward Dowling Hillard, Tuscaloosa, AL
Ronald Wayne Hillyer, Opelika, AL
Benjamin Franklin Hinton, Huntsville, AL
Martin Bruce Hirsch, Nashville, TN
Janice Hill Hodges, Scottsboro, AL
* Cary Gene Hodnett, Chattanooga, TN
* John Baldwin Hodo, Birmingham, AL
Walter Leroy Hogan, Jr., Mobile, AL
William Edgar Holcomb III, Cullman, AL
Derek Keith Holcombe, Alexander City, AL
Bruce Fowler Holding, Jr., Pike Road, AL
* Reese Maxwell Holifield, Demopolis, AL
Warren Holcomb Holley, Tuscaloosa, AL
Johnstone Pow Hollis, Georgianna, AL
Wilton Russell Holman III, Birmingham, AL
Jeremy K. Hon, Huntsville, AL
Lynda Burke Hon, Huntsville, AL
Michael Benjamin Honan, Birmingham, AL
Jonathan Campbell Hood, Oneonta, AL
Doug G. Hooper, Smithville, TN
Glenn Scoble Hooper, Tampa, FL
Jerry Wayne Hope, Enterprise, AL
Robert Lee Hopkins, Metairie, LA
Donna R. Sandidge Hopple, Trumansburg, NY
Jay Stoness Hortenstine, Murrayville, GA
Gary Lee Howard, Birmingham, AL
* Paul Sanford Howard, Hoover, AL
Thomas Edward Howard, Jr., Fort Worth, TX
Charles Baxter Howell, Decatur, AL
Julian Parker Howell, Jr., Selma, AL
Mildred Ennis Howell, Birmingham, AL
William Harper Howell, Vestavia, AL
Robert Louis Howland, Jr., Columbus, MS
Millard Leston Hoyt, Carmel, IN
Leslie Howell Hubbard, Montevallo, AL
Kathryn Welch Huddleston, Jacksonville, FL
* Peggy Hoffman Huddleston, Brownsboro, AL
Kyle Randall Hudgens, Birmingham, AL
Roger James Hudgins, Atlanta, GA
Gary Wayne Hudson, Huntsville, AL
William Forse Huggins II, Birmingham, AL
A. J. Hughes, Auburn, AL
Frederica Wilhelmina Hughey, Summerville, SC
Sarah Lauren Campbell Hughey, Birmingham, AL
Todd Michael Hulgan, Nashville, TN
* Joseph Monroe Humphries, Birmingham, AL
Fred Dominic Hunker, Montgomery, AL
Albert Collier Hunt, Decatur, AL
Charles Boyette Hunter, Mobile, AL
Charles E. Hunter, Jr., Wilmington, NC
* Eric Hunter, Vestavia, AL
James Bernhart Hunter, Nicholasville, KY
William Ward Hurd, Dayton, OH
J. Milton Hutson, New York, NY
Susan Cecelia Hutto, Birmingham, AL
Richard Fangyuan Hwang, Danville, KY
Renee Joy Hyatt, Townsend, TN
Patrick Anthony Hyland, Jasper, AL
Charles Edgar Ingalls III, Montgomery, AL
Danny Patrick Ingram, Prattville, AL
James Thomas Ingram, Carrollton, GA
Michael Allen Ingram, Panama City, FL
Jerome Gaeton Ippolito, Birmingham, AL
George Vernon Irons, Jr., Mooresville, NC
Steven Phillips Irving, High Point, NC
Donald Bruce Irwin, Birmingham, AL
John B. Isbell III, Fort Payne, AL
* Steven Alan Isbell, Fort Payne, AL
James H. Isobe, Birmingham, AL
Robert Willis Israel, Mobile, AL
Willis Dwight Israel, Wedowee, AL
John Odeh Issis, Birmingham, AL
Daniel F. Jackson III, Dothan, AL
* David Huntsman Jackson, Birmingham, AL
Michael Joseph Jackson, Savannah, GA
Eugene Elias Jacob, Prospect, KY
Patricia Carol Jaggers, Richmond, VA
Christopher Dean Jahraus, Lexington, KY
Jeanne James, New Orleans, LA
James Michael Jasper II, Pensacola, FL
L. Thomas Jehle, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Howard Dean Jenkins, Altoona, AL
Sheri McClellan Jenkins, Charlotte, NC
Todd Ralph Jenkins, Charlotte, NC
Lynn Anderson Jetton, Holly Pond, AL
Kent Johns, Clanton, AL
* Nancy Dunlap Johns, Birmingham, AL
Bobby Nelson Johnson, Huntsville, AL
Bruce King Johnson, Birmingham, AL
Edwin Hill Johnson, Temple, TX
* James Curtis Johnson, Birmingham, AL
John Frank Johnson, Mobile, AL
Joseph Wayne Johnson, Andalusia, AL
* Lloyd Johnson, Jr., Florence, AL
Richard Hardin Johnson, Atlanta, GA
Stephen Morgan Johnson, Lynchburg, VA
William Earle Johnson III, Mobile, AL
William Monroe Johnson III, Birmingham, AL
Flemon Carden Johnston, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Michael Nolen Johnston, New Orleans, LA
William Henry Johnston, Jr., Birmingham, AL
* William Joseph Johnston, Jr., River Ridge, LA
Kenneth Lane Jonas, Kalispell, MT
C. Michael Jones, Germantown, TN
Dennis Malcom Jones, Kimberly, AL
Gorman Robinson Jones III, Birmingham, AL
J. Michael Jones, Huntsville, AL
* James David Jones II, Melbourne, FL
Joseph Gregory Jones, Lizella, GA
Leonard William Jones III, Tuscaloosa, AL
Thomas Rodenbough Jones, Concord, NC
Robert David Kachelhofer, Birmingham, AL
Donald Roy Kahn, Birmingham, AL
Leroy Anthony Kamelchuk, Huntsville, AL
Joseph Jay Kaplan, Columbus, GA
Saul J. Kaplan, Fairfax, VA
Robin Rigell Karpf, Princeton, NJ
J. E. Keeton, Tuscaloosa, AL
Stephen Daniel Keith, Jr., Florence, AL
Ward Andrew Keith, Empire, AL
Sherron Henderson Kell, Scottsdale, AZ
Christopher Gordon Kelley, Gadsden, AL
Michael Scott Kendrick, Pike Road, AL
* R. Mark Kendrick, Tuscaloosa, AL
Patricia Ann Kendrick-Robinson, Selma, AL
Samuel Rexford Kennamer, Beverly Hills, CA
Kathleen Donovan Kennelly, Atlantic Beach, FL
Bruce Maurice Key, Birmingham, AL
Timothy Joel Key, Homewood, AL
Thomas LaFayette Kilgore, Jr., Ridgeland, MS
* Cengiz Mehmet Kilic, Atlanta, GA
* Wayne Worden Killion, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Joseph Myoung Ho Kim, Killen, AL
Benjamin Rogers King, Huntsville, AL
Thomas Ivan King, Gulf Breeze, FL
John Donald Kirby, Mobile, AL
Kay Williams Kirchler, Florence, AL
Theo Neal Kirkland, Jr., Birmingham, AL
James K. Kirklin, Birmingham, AL
Paul M. Kirschenfeld, Sumter, SC
Jerry Lester Kitchens, Jr., Birmingham, AL
* Margaret Strange Klapper, Little Rock, AR
Stephen James Klemawesch, St. Petersburg, FL
Nicholas Alan Knight, Selma, AL
* Hurley Walden Knott, Birmingham, AL
Henry Jacob Koch, Mobile, AL
Warren Elliott Koffler, Mobile, AL
Robert Leonard Kominek, Mobile, AL
John George Kontos, Jr., Memphis, TN
Stephen Henry Koopmeiners, Cedar Falls, IA
Daniel Leonce Koppersmith, Tiki Island, TX
Joseph D. Kovacs, Jr., Gainesville, FL
Alexander Vaughn Kreher, Montgomery, AL
Kari Marie Kubik, Louisville, KY
Craig Charles Kuglen, Austin, TX
William H. Kutteh, Germantown, TN
T. Kevin Lackey, Gadsden, AL
David Alan Lairmore, Mobile, AL
Andrew Stephen Lamb, Burlington, NC
Charles Richard Lambert, Talladega, AL
* Wade Camdon Lamberth, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Benjamin Alan Lampert, Springfield, MO
Beatrice Campbell Lampkin, Cincinnati, OH
J. Robert Lancaster, Hampton Cove, AL
Kirk Martin Landau, Jacksonville, FL
Karen Destin May Landers, Leighton, AL
* Phillip Leonard Laney, Hampton Cove, AL
William Ivan Lapidus, Birmingham, AL
Lisa Lynn Large, Palo Alto, CA
* Charles Adrian Larson, Guntersville, AL
Christopher Paul LaRussa, Montgomery, AL
Joseph Bruno LaRussa, Birmingham, AL
* Robert Ottis Lauderdale, Jr., Leeds, AL
Elmar M. J. Lawaczeck, Birmingham, AL
Thomas Earl Lawrence, Greensboro, NC
W. Dwayne Lawrence, Providence, RI
Thomas Clifford Lawson, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Troy Alan Layton, Huntsville, AL
James Monroe Lee, Birmingham, AL
Joseph Merrill Lee, Birmingham,
M. Andrew Lee, Brentwood, TN
Rufus Ernest Lee, Jr., Dothan, AL
* Lawrence John Lemak, Birmingham, AL
William Andrew Lemons, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Evelyn Ann Leonard, Cullman, AL
Mark Hayden LeQuire, Montgomery, AL
Frank Martin Lester, Fairhope, AL
Shirley Sanders Letchman, Springville, AL
Arnold I. Levin, Redmond, WA
Fred Alan Levin, Atlanta, GA
Stuart Jeffrey Levin, Raleigh, NC
Jonathan Lyone Levine, Birmingham, AL
Clifton Thomas P. Lewis, Sarasota, FL
Robert D. Lightfoot, Mobile, AL
William Malcolm Lightfoot, Mobile, AL
Selina Lin, Katy, TX
James Douglas Lindsey, Birmingham, AL
Dice Kyle Lineberry, Trussville, AL
Julius Earl Linn, Jr., Birmingham, AL
James Mitchell Lipstate, Lafayette, LA
Linda Kinman Lipstate, Lafayette, LA
Richard Erwin Litt, Coral Gables, FL
* Harry Joseph Littleton, Birmingham, AL
Marcia Jean Litzinger, Salt Lake City, UT
Eugene Lin Liu, Ann Arbor, MI
Stanley Keith Lochridge, Birmingham, AL
James Stephen Lock, Auburn, AL
James Alanson Lockwood, Eufaula, AL
Robert Henry Lokey, Anniston, AL
Thomas A. Lombardo, Beaumont, TX
Franklin Howard Long, Mobile, AL
Georganne Wells Long, Richmond, VA
Patrick James Louis, Vestavia Hills, AL
Steve Ray Lovelady, Tuscaloosa, AL
James Radcliff Lowrey, Crystal River, FL
Suzanne Lee Lowry, Atlanta, GA
* Thomas Riley Lumpkin, Tuscaloosa, AL
George David Lundberg, Jr., Los Gatos, CA
Michael Joseph Lunsford, Cullman, AL
Victor Entebang Lunyong, New Orleans, LA
John Alexander Lusk III, Greensboro, NC
Richard Howard Lyerly, Birmingham, AL
Richard Allen Lytle, Birmingham, AL
Hugh Stuart MacGuire, Savannah, GA
James Stephen Maddox, Montgomery, AL
Phillip Madonia, Mobile, AL
Sharmila Kumari Makhija, Birmingham, AL
John A. Maloof III, Columbia, TN
Eugene Anthony Mangieri, Tuscaloosa, AL
Christian Percy Mannsfeld, Baton Rouge, LA
Anuj Paul Manocha, Mableton, GA
Jeffry Derrick Manord, Cullman, AL
John Andrew Mantle, Tuscaloosa, AL
36

In Appreciation
Russell Vaughn Maples, Greenville, SC
E. Russell March, Jr., Mobile, AL
Robert Burton Mardre, Jr., Opelika, AL
John Scott Marks, Point Clear, AL
Edward John Markushewski, Jr., Huntsville, AL
Ellen Lucille Marmer, Vernon, CT
Carl Walter Martens, Monroeville, AL
* Ben Robertson Martin III, Dothan, AL
Charles R. Martin, Jacksonville, NC
Danny Joe Martin, Florence, AL
David Owen Martin, Mayfield Heights, OH
Frederick Watson Martin, Carrollton, GA
Keith Christopher Martin, Montgomery, AL
Robert Gary Martin, Birmingham, AL
Robert Michael Martin, Birmingham, AL
Vicki Rutland Martin, Birmingham, AL
Allyson Brown Maske, Memphis, TN
John Ogden Mason III, Hoover, AL
Robert Jason Matlock, Minneapolis, MN
James Claude Matthews, Jr., Bailey, MS
Adelyn B. Maughan, Northport, AL
Richard Michael Mazey, Mobile, AL
* Billy Dearl McAnnally, Lineville, AL
Michael Leigh McBrearty, Fairhope, AL
* Charles Lee McCain, Decatur, AL
Paul Pressly McCain, Decatur, AL
Chandra Maria McCall, Tampa, FL
Daniel Thompson McCall III, Mobile, AL
* Charles Alexander McCallum, Jr.,
Birmingham, AL
* John Terrell McCarley, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Mark Daniel McCaslin, Mobile, AL
William Marvin McClellan, Jr., La Grange, GA
Scott H. McClure, Colorado Springs, CO
Jasper Otto McCollough, Jr., Winter Haven, FL
Beatrice Files McConnell, Atlanta, GA
Michael Ellis McConnell, Atlanta, GA
Loren Edward McCoy, Muscle Shoals, AL
Patricia Massengill McCoy, Huntsville, AL
Walter Clayton McCoy, Birmingham, AL
Edward Fishburne McCraw, Greenville, AL
Ellann McCrory, Fort Payne, AL
Clarence Eugene McDanal, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Millie Martha McDaniel, Birmingham, AL
William Young McDaniel, Theodore, AL
James E. McDonald II, Fayetteville, AR
Holt Andrews McDowell, Jr., Birmingham, AL
* Paul Douglas McDowell, Huntsville, AL
Michael Anderson McEwen, Gadsden, AL
Tracy Lynn McFall, Charleston, SC
Gaston Owen McGinnis, Anniston, AL
* Eoline Irene McGowan, Birmingham, AL
Norman Floyd McGowin III, Chapman, AL
George Harris McGrady, Birmingham, AL
Lynn Bernard McGrath, Moorestown, NJ
Robert Alton McGuire, Jr., Jackson, MS
C. Rush McInnis, Jr., Birmingham, AL
David Russell McKenzie, Auburn, AL
J. Barry McKernan, Marietta, GA
William Keith McKibbin, Asheville, NC
David Parks McKinley, Sheffield, AL
James Davis McKinney, Cookeville, TN
Randall Louis McKissack, Fairhope, AL
Leon Durward McLaughlin, Ozark, AL
Max Victor McLaughlin, Orange Beach, AL
Robert Joseph McLaughlin, Ozark, AL
William Davis McLaughlin, Dothan, AL
Barry Kincaid McLean, Birmingham, AL
Gwendellyn Lewellyn McLean, Birmingham, AL
Paul Allen McLeod, Milton, FL
John Martin McMahon, Jr., Daphne, AL
Freddy Glen McMurry, Huntsville, AL
Mario R. McNally, New Orleans, LA
Ryan Scott McNamara, Knoxville, TN
Sarah Dawn McNutt, Birmingham, AL
James Michael McQueen, Enterprise, AL
Norman Ellsworth McSwain, Jr.,
New Orleans, LA
Leon Victor McVay III, Mobile, AL
Donald Chapman Meadows, Harlingen, TX
James Allen Meadows III, Savannah, GA
Klaus F. Medenbach, Huntsville, AL
Joshua Daniel Meezan, San Francisco, CA
Autry Greer Megginson, Mobile, AL
John Sansbury Meigs, Jr., Brent, AL
Mitchell James Mendrek, Little Rock, AR
Daniel Michael Merck, Olathe, KS
* Ronald Clifton Merrell, Richmond, VA
Michael Wallace Meshad, Mobile, AL
Max Michael III, Birmingham, AL
Julius Michaelson, Jr., Puyallup, WA
Marc Alan Michelson, Birmingham, AL
Mark Middlebrooks, Birmingham, AL
Guy Malcolm Middleton, Lancaster, SC
Fabian Matthew Mihelic, Knoxville, TN
Edward Adams Millar, Libertyville, IL
A. Lamar Miller, Jr., Dothan, AL
George Douglas Miller, Gadsden, AL
Jennifer Delane Miller, Birmingham, AL
John Pitts Miller, Hammond, LA
P. Caudill Miller, Montgomery, AL
S. Jones Miller III, La Grange, GA
Samuel Carter Miller, Sr., Mobile, AL
Samuel Lamar Miller, Montgomery, AL
* Patrick Leonard Mills, Sr., Birmingham, AL
Danny Arnold Milner, Jr., Cambridge, MA
Angela Prater Mintz, Pensacola, FL
Ira Lyman Mitchell, Jr., Florence, AL
Robert Byrd Mitchell, Huntsville, AL
Tom Lyle Mitchell, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Dale Grimes Mitchum, Geneva, AL
Otis Dale Mitchum, Geneva, AL
Donald Richard Moeller, Columbus, GA
A. Charles Money, Birmingham, AL
Gary David Monheit, Houston, TX
Kathy Wingo Monroe, Birmingham, AL
John Richard Montgomery, Huntsville, AL
David Charles Montiel, Montgomery, AL
Jon Rice Moody, Huntsville, AL
Thomas Edwin Moody, Birmingham, AL
James Owen Moon, Birmingham, AL
Alan Lee Moore, Auburn, AL
Carol Sturgeon Moore, Holliston, MA
* Ernest Griffin Moore, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Jasper Duncan Moore, Union, MS
Michael Arthur Moore, Birmingham, AL
* Michael Neil Moore, Russellville, AL
Paul Beveridge Moore, Montgomery, AL
Sandra Velia Moore, Plano, TX
William W. Moore, Jr., Dunwoody, GA
Cynthia Marie Moore-Sledge, Birmingham, AL
* Richard Bacon Morawetz, Birmingham, AL
John Finch Morehous, Cincinnati, OH
Alice Hardin Morgan, Cullman, AL
Claud Edward Morgan, Jr., Duluth, GA
Marla Black Morgan, Alabaster, AL
C. Michael Morris, Duluth, GA
Enoch Carter Morris III, Birmingham, AL
Peter William Morris, Birmingham, AL
Robert Edward Morris, Birmingham, AL
Constantine Demetrios Morros, Birmingham, AL
John Andrew Morrow, Anniston, AL
John Andrew Morrow, Jr., Mobile, AL
Victoria Lynn Morrow, Montgomery, AL
William Gordon Moseley, Jr., La Jolla, CA
Billy Ray Mosley, Mobile, AL
Charles Stebner Mosteller, Daphne, AL
James Merrill Motes, Jr., Corpus Christi, TX
Elizabeth Ann Mountcastle, Montgomery, AL
Knut Erich Mueller, Mobile, AL
Kristi Morgan Mulchahey, Marietta, GA
Ross Bob Mullins, Jr., Valley, AL
Dorothy Snoddy Murphy, Murfreesboro, TN
John Larkin Musgrove, Florence, AL
Frederick August Muths, Cleveland, TN
* Ira Lee Myers, Montgomery, AL
Alexander M. Nading, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Albert Jackson Naftel, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC
Denise Joseph Nakos, Smyrna, GA
Ahmad Nasserian, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Byron L. Nelson, Centre, AL
Mary Jane Nelson, Birmingham, AL
David Allen Nesser, Dallas, TX
T. Gerald New, Decatur, AL
Charles Leatherbury Newman, Gadsden, AL
* Leon Bryant Newman, Salisbury, NC
* Lucian Newman III, Gadsden, AL
* Lucian Newman, Jr., Gadsden, AL
William Alton Newman III, Columbia, SC
Edward Tyler Nichols, Orange Beach, AL
J. Christopher Nichols, Birmingham, AL
Michele Holloway Nichols, Birmingham, AL
Randall Wayne Nichols, Dothan, AL
Robert Kenneth Nichols, Prattville, AL
* Steven R. Nichols, Birmingham, AL
* Kurt M. Walter Niemann, Columbiana, AL
Laura Lucille Norrell, San Francisco, CA
Joel William Norris, Monroe, LA
Samuel S. Norvell, Jr., Rockville, MD
William Raymond Nuessle, Huntsville, AL
George Woodward Nunn, Tuscaloosa, AL
Lloyd Milton Nyhus, Northfield, IL
Walter Allen Oaks, Mobile, AL
Charles Lawton Ogburn, Jr., Macon, GA
Isabel Barker Oldshue, Tuscaloosa, AL
Ronald Terry Olivet, Tuscaloosa, AL
Gary Wayne Olson, Dalton, GA
Joe Willard O’Neal, Tuscaloosa, AL
Patrick Edward O’Reilly, Jr.,
Mardela Springs, MD
* Ronald Wayne Orso, Birmingham, AL
Robert Carl Osburne, Atlanta, GA
Guy Coleman Oswalt, Jr., Mobile, AL
Dennis Evan Ottemiller, North Bend, OR
Charles Reynold Overstreet, Decatur, AL
Donald Clyde Overstreet, Selma, AL
* W. Crawford Owen, Birmingham, AL
Dennis Praytor Owens, Birmingham, AL
Loren Cook Owensby, Victoria, TX
Eddie Nathaniel Pace, Jr., Mobile, AL
Albert Dominick Pacifico, Indian Springs, AL
Ann Maurine Packard, New York, NY
John Mallory Packard, Jr., Guntersville, AL
Donald Robert Paek, Fort Worth, TX
Martin Doyle Palmer, Birmingham, AL
Lee Ann Pannell, Trussville, AL
Angela Cannon Pardee-Glaze, Charlotte, NC
Bernard Lee Parham, Chattanooga, TN
Timothy D. Parish, Vestavia, AL
Kim Michelle Parker, Birmingham, AL
Mervel Vernon Parker, Montgomery, AL
Steven Wallace Parker, Reno, NV
Paul Franklin Parks, Jr., New Orleans, LA
Grant Van Siclen Parr, Morristown, NJ
Kathleen Gage Parr, Baltimore, MD
* David O’Neil Parrish, Tierra Verde, FL
Sheela Krishnasami Parrish, Huntsville, AL
Rufus Cornelius Partlow, Jr., Tuscaloosa, AL
Edward Eddins Partridge, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Robert Floyd Pass, Birmingham, AL
William Morrow Patterson, Birmingham, AL
Arthur Frederick Patton, Birmingham, AL
Francis Moore Patton, Pell City, AL
* Ira Bertling Patton, Oneonta, AL
Robert Cecil Patton, Opelika, AL
William Curtis Patton, Forrest City, AR
Charles Ted Paulk, Dothan, AL
James Flood Paulk, Enterprise, AL
Daniel Frank Pauly, Gainesville, FL
Gillis Lavelle Payne, Jr., Ramer, AL
Kathy Wells Payne, Andalusia, AL
Louis Thomason Payne, Tuscaloosa, AL
Robert Rex Payne, Birmingham, AL
Thomas Jefferson Payne III, Birmingham, AL
William Richard Payne, Cartersville, GA
Jane Pearson, Birmingham, AL
G. Vernon Pegram III, Fort Payne, AL
Thomas Carl Pendleton, Birmingham, AL
Miriam Y. Peri, Cincinnati, OH
Stewart Neal Perlman, Nashville, TN
37

In Appreciation
C. Paul Perry, Jr., Birmingham, AL
* Glenn Eidson Peters, Birmingham, AL
* Joseph Alan Peters, Counce, TN
Cary Glenn Petry, Vestavia, AL
Teri L. Pettersen, Portland, OR
Ralph Burton Pfeiffer III, Thurmont, MD
Ralph Burton Pfeiffer, Jr., Mobile, AL
Alpheus M. Phillips, Jr., Macon, GA
Gerry Madison Phillips, Mobile, AL
Harry Ladon Phillips, Columbiana, AL
James Robert Phillips, Gadsden, AL
James Conlee Pickens, Cantonment, FL
Taylor King Pickett, Niceville, FL
Leonard Faherty Pinkley, Jr., Amory, MS
Roger McCoy Pitt, Atlanta, GA
Constance Shen Pittman, Birmingham, AL
* James Allen Pittman, Jr., Birmingham, AL
* Walter Gay Pittman, Mountain Brook, AL
J. Randall Pitts, Birmingham, AL
Joan B. Cain Pizitz, Birmingham, AL
Michelle Miller Plagenhoef, Dothan, AL
Edward John Planz, Jr., Dothan, AL
Peter Pluscht III, Mobile, AL
Michael Gerard Poist, Tuscaloosa, AL
James E. Pollock, Rockville, MD
* Samuel Baker Pollock, Jr., Louisville, KY
Sarah Stephens Polt, Birmingham, AL
J. Denise Poole-Cahela, Destin, FL
Carol Ray Porch, Arab, AL
Ellis Fay Porch, Jr., Arab, AL
C. McGavock Porter, Montgomery, AL
Cedric E. Porter, Swainsboro, GA
Charles Edward Porter, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Robert Allen Posey, Tuscaloosa, AL
Donna Millar Potts, Townville, SC
Angela Adams Powell, Monroeville, AL
Don W. Powell, Galveston, TX
James Blackmon Powell II, Asheville, NC
James Gregory Powell, Rochester, MN
James Orlis Powell, Birmingham, AL
Rhonda Henderson Powell, Birmingham, AL
Thomas Edward Powell, Birmingham, AL
Charles Kent Powers, Jr., Kissimmee, FL
* John Worrell Poynor, Birmingham, AL
Steven DeWayne Presley, Enterprise, AL
Jeffrey Frank Price, Clanton, AL
Neil Morgan Price, Nashville, TN
William F. Price, Spartanburg, SC
* Robert Monroe Pritchett, Birmingham, AL
Michael Wayne Proctor, Anniston, AL
Wallace Dale Prophet, Dothan, AL
Alicia Ann Prowse, Bronx, NY
Mary R. Prucnal, Gadsden, AL
Charles Wilburn Pruet, East Amherst, NY
Bryan Lee Pruitt, Birmingham, AL
Ronald E. Pruitt, Nashville, TN
John Barr Pugh, Atlanta, GA
* Martha Elanor Pugh, Houston, TX
Michael Lee Putman, Decatur, AL
William Walter Pyron, Decatur, AL
L. Darryl Quarles, Durham, NC
Norman Hill Rahn III, Gadsden, AL
* Hector Ramirez, Jr., Huntsville, AL
Michael Jeffrey Ramsey, Dothan, AL
Richard Rosa Randall, Huntsville, AL
Kathleen Anne Ranney, Thurmont, MD
Frederic Gordon Ransom, Birmingham, AL
Ubol Kulprapha Ratanaubol, Birmingham, AL
Mary Jane Ravel, Palm Harbor, FL
* Joseph Byron Ray, Mobile, AL
Bruce Copeland Raymon, Pensacola, FL
Harry Edward Reagor, Jr., Lodi, CA
* David Michael Reardon, Fort Myers, FL
Alfred Randolph Rector, Birmingham, AL
Srikar Sunki Reddy, Columbia, TN
* V. Sreenath Reddy, Decatur, GA
Angela Helms Redmond, Cullman, AL
James Lendon Reeder, Huntsville, AL
Linda Parker Reeves, Birmingham, AL
Russell Chesley Reeves, Birmingham, AL
Mary Elizabeth Reid, Boise, ID
William Mason Reid, Muscle Shoals, AL
W. Courtenay Renneker, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Eugene Scott Reynolds, Largo, FL
Frank Hall Reynolds II, Chattanooga, TN
Jennifer Morris Rhode, West Roxbury, MA
* Marsha Jernigan Rhodes, Charlotte, NC
* Robert Henry Rhyne, Jr., Moulton, AL
Alvin Leonard Rich, Birmingham, AL
Sherrie Anderson Richards, Nashville, TN
Holly Elizabeth Richter, Birmingham, AL
Lonard Clarence Rigsby III, Montgomery, AL
* Stancel Martin Riley, Jr., Huntsville, AL
William Earle Riley, Gardendale, AL
Emily Sherrill Riser, Birmingham, AL
John Byron Riser, Birmingham, AL
Robert Merle Ritter, Brandon, MS
Gerald Joseph Rizzo, St. Petersburg, FL
Benjamin Wayne Roberts, Birmingham, AL
David Hall Roberts, Talladega, AL
Floyd Joseph Roberts, Jr., Baton Rouge, LA
Gregory C. Robertson, Atherton, CA
John Douglas Robertson, Birmingham, AL
Carl Ray Robinson, West Blocton, AL
John Crawford Rochester, Knoxville, TN
Brian Edward Rogers, Auburn, AL
Douglas Lee Rollins, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Evelyn Spira Rosemore, Plano, TX
Matthew Randall Rosengart, Seattle, WA
Robert George Rosser, Columbiana, AL
Philip Anthony Roth, Jr., Huntsville, AL
Melinda Grace Rowe, Savannah, GA
* Stephen William Rowe, Gadsden, AL
Donald H. Rowell, Santa Rosa, CA
William Gardner Rowell, Northport, AL
* Stuart Alan Royal, Birmingham, AL
Steven Michael Rudd, Birmingham, AL
Loring W. Rue III, Birmingham, AL
Claude Cayce Rumsey III, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Charles Walton Rush, Osprey, FL
Bruce Wayne Russell, Cordova, AL
William Stephen Russell, Opelika, AL
Charles Langdon Rutherford, Jr., Mobile, AL
Jill Arnita Rutherford, Birmingham, AL
Guy Leslie Rutledge III, Mobile, AL
Jarvis DeVaughn Ryals, Pueblo, CO
Thad Franklin Ryals, Birmingham, AL
Salem George Saloom, Brewton, AL
* Merle Meyers Salter, Montevallo, AL
* Paul Pullen Salter, Jr., Montevallo, AL
Susan Paula Salter, Birmingham, AL
Stephen William Samelson, Montgomery, AL
Hubert Douglas Sammons, Columbia, SC
Robert Vester Sanders III, Fort Smith, AR
Jon Emory Sanford, Fayette, AL
Mark Vernon Sapp, Memphis, TN
Morgan Scott Sarrels, Decatur, AL
Lowell Franklin Satler, Bethesda, MD
Harry L. Sauers III, Clearwater, FL
Perry Lauren Savage, Birmingham, AL
Samuel F. Sawyer, Enterprise, AL
Frank Schefano III, Metarie, LA
* Michael James Schlitt, Renton, WA
Suzanne W. Schuessler, LaGrange, GA
Katharine N. Schull, Nashville, TN
Darrell E. Schwertner, St. Simons Island, GA
George Farned Scofield, Birmingham, AL
Aubrey Dennis Scott, Birmingham, AL
Charlie William Scott, Jr., Indian Springs, AL
John L. Scott, Greensboro, NC
John Russell Scott, Spartanburg, SC
Warren A. Scott, Soquel, CA
William Allen Scott, Grand Junction, CO
* John David Seay, Amory, MS
Nathan Segall, Atlanta, GA
Betty McBride Sellers, Gardendale, AL
John Emanuel Semon, Mobile, AL
Sheldon Joel Sevinor, Nahant, MA
David Allen Shachat, Annapolis, MD
Claude Edward Shackelford, Northport, AL
William Burton Shadburn, Pike Road, AL
John Ashley Shannon, Decatur, AL
Harold Oran Shapiro, Vernon, CT
Paul Moses Shashy, Montgomery, AL
Peter Scott Shashy, Montgomery, AL
L. Thomas Sheffield, Jr., Birmingham, AL
R. Waid Shelton, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Eliyahu Shemesh, Boca Raton, FL
Debra Goodridge Shepard, Naples, FL
W. Elizabeth Shepard, Palo Alto, CA
Fred Oscar Sherrill, Jr., Huntsville, AL
Joseph Madden Sherrill, Birmingham, AL
* Robert Grady Sherrill, Jr., Indian Springs, AL
Charles Paschal Shook III, Fort Myers, FL
James Edgar Shotts, Jr., Tuscaloosa, AL
Cathy Darlene Shrader, Alexandria, VA
Michael B. Shrock, Philadelphia, MS
Henry M. Shuey, Jr., Lutherville, MD
* Alan Myron Siegal, Birmingham, AL
Stuart Louis Siegal, Birmingham, AL
Martin Tristram Sigler, Dallas, TX
Michael Jay Sillers, Birmingham, AL
Earl Malcolm Simmons, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Earl Malcolm Simmons III, Birmingham, AL
L. Clark Simpson, Birmingham, AL
Thomas Herbert Simpson, Jr., Rock Hill, SC
W. Ford Simpson, Jr., Tuscaoosa, AL
William Hayden Simpson, Gadsden, AL
Larry Oneal Skelton, Tuscaloosa, AL
Mark Edward Skillan, Atlanta, GA
Gregory E. Skipper, Montgomery, AL
C. Vernon Skoog, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Donald Floyd Slappey, Albertville, AL
Katherine LaVan Smallwood, Richmond, VA
Danny Neal Smelser, Florence, AL
Braxton Franklin Smith, Guntersville, AL
Bryan Leonard Smith, Venice, FL
Charles Harold Smith, Montgomery, AL
Claude W. Smith, Jr., Columbia, SC
David Albert Smith, Chapel Hill, NC
Donnie Ray Smith, Northport, AL
Elizabeth Randall Smith, Louisville, KY
* G. Hampton Smith, Jr., Birmingham, AL
* George Cicero Smith, Lineville, AL
J. Kevin Smith, Birmingham, AL
Jeffrey Kent Smith, Greenville, SC
Nathan Bert Smith II, Birmingham, AL
Patrick Henry Smith, Birmingham, AL
Philip Scott Smith, Baltimore, MD
Robert Russell Smith, Brewton, AL
Sidney Paul Smith III, Savannah, GA
Steven Reed Smith, Huntsville, AL
Theodore Roosevelt Smith, Jr., Montgomery, AL
William David Smith, Montgomery, AL
William Earle Smith, Jr., Cullman, AL
Wilson Pedrick Smith, Jr., Spartanburg, SC
Thomas Cecil Smitherman, Pittsburgh, PA
Henry Elton Smoak, Jr., Clearwater, FL
Henry Elton Smoak III, Indian Rocks Beach, FL
Merle Kelley Snow, Jr., Vestavia, AL
Arthur Farrish Snyder, Tuscaloosa, AL
Glen Davis Sockwell, Florence, AL
Margaret Louise Somerall, Birmingham, AL
Weily Soong, Hamden, CT
Robert Gordon Sorrell, Birmingham, AL
Pete S. Soteres, Signal Mountain, TN
J. Ellis Sparks, Huntsville, AL
* Jimmy Mitchell Sparks, Birmingham, AL
Carol Denise Spears, Lexington, KY
Betty Ruth Speir, Point Clear, AL
Homer Andrew Spencer, Gadsden, AL
Sharon Ann Spencer, Birmingham, AL
Richard J. Spurlin, Opp, AL
Okey James Staats, Childersburg, AL
Gerald E. Stack, Greenwell Springs, LA
Anne Golden Stafford, Birmingham, AL
Mark Alan Stafford, Birmingham, AL
* Rucker Lewis Staggers, Elberta, AL
* William Rucker Staggers, Fairhope, AL
Sergio Bruno Stagno, Birmingham, AL
38

In Appreciation
Martin Wade Stallings, Kings Mountain, NC
Deborah Ann Stanford, Birmingham, AL
Michael James Stanford, Saint Petersburg, FL
Earl Austin Stanley, San Antonio, TX
Michael Wade Stanley, Minneapolis, MN
Roy Francis Stanton III, Gardendale, AL
Jerald G. Steiner, Sarasota, FL
James Gilbert Stensby, Winchester, TN
Selden Harbour Stephens III, Mobile, AL
Selden Harbour Stephens, Jr., Mobile, AL
* Johnnie Wayne Stevens, Birmingham, AL
James Patrick Stewart, Anniston, AL
Mark Lindsey Stewart, Missoula, MT
Mitchell Christopher Stickler, Lewes, DE
Wade W. Stinson, Florence, AL
John Everett Stone, Jr., Mobile, AL
Timothy Ellis Stone, Birmingham, AL
* William Bratton Stonecypher, Birmingham, AL
Robert Howard Story, Tuskegee, AL
Cary Lee Stowe, Winter Park, FL
Darcy Lynn Stracner, Little Rock, AR
Martha Jane Strange, Birmingham, AL
* J. Michael Straughn, Birmingham, AL
* W. Howard Striplin, Jr., Huntsville, AL
James Larkin Strong, Birmingham, AL
Terrence Lee Stull, Oklahoma City, OK
* Mike Stults, Cedar City, UT
Ines C. Sturich-Cilliani, Irvine, CA
William Douglas Sudduth, Tuscaloosa, AL
Stephen Patrick Suggs, Decatur, AL
William Jay Suggs, Meridianville, AL
Edward Allen Sullivan III, Birmingham, AL
James Solomon Sullivan, Dothan, AL
* Percy Guin Sullivan, Birmingham, AL
William Bruns Sullivan, Hattiesburg, MS
William Larry Sullivan, Huntsville, AL
L. Patricia Susemihl, Centreville, VA
* Swaid Nofal Swaid, Birmingham, AL
Frederick D. Swartzendruber, Roanoke, VA
Robert Leldon Sweet, Vidor, TX
Connie Matthews Swillie, Indian Springs, AL
Carol Gunn Swindle, Birmingham, AL
* Felix Marcus Tankersley, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Robert Stacy Tapscott, Decatur, AL
Robert Ferris Tarpy, Lafayette, LA
Oscar David Taunton, Birmingham, AL
* E. Lee Taylor, Jr., Spanish Fort, AL
Gregg William Taylor, Greensboro, NC
Jasmine Pugh Taylor, Madison, MS
Peyton Troy Taylor, Jr., Ivy, VA
Robert Elmore Taylor, Durham, NC
William Henry Taylor, Jr., Birmingham, AL
William Riley Taylor, Johnson City, TN
Ralph Joe Teague, Birmingham, AL
* Dudley Joseph Terrell, Ozark, AL
* Aubrey Eugene Terry, Russellville, AL
Nina L. J. Terry, Sylacauga, AL
* Edward Lamar Thomas, Birmingham, AL
Frank Philip Thomas, Decatur, AL
George Emanuel Thomas, Jackson, TN
James Lloyd Thomas, Montrose, AL
* Joseph Paul Thomas, Mobile, AL
Julian Murphree Thomas, Birmingham, AL
Ben Frank Thompson III, Lake Charles, LA
Jason Byron Thompson, Helena, AL
Paul Allen Thompson, Apopka, FL
William Alexander Thompson III, Birmingham, AL
Donald Davis Thornbury, Jr., Montgomery, AL
* Helen Raye Thrasher, Birmingham, AL
* Chauncey Benedict Thuss, Birmingham, AL
Craig Michael Tilghman, Panama City, FL
Glenn Warna Tillery, Hampton Cove, AL
Roger Dean Tims, Roanoke, VA
Steven David Tishler, Nashville, TN
* John Carey Tomberlin, Enterprise, AL
* Charles Samuel Tompkins, Brantley, AL
Arthur Fulkerson Toole III, Anniston, AL
Terry Jay Toranto, Walnut Creek, CA
Michael Joseph Torma, Shreveport, LA
* Claudio Erasmo Toro, Birmingham, AL
F. Darlene Harrison Traffanstedt, Hoover, AL
Dale Edward Trammell, Decatur, AL
* Jack Walden Trigg, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Robert W. Trotter, Athens, TN
Peter Tsai, Huntington, WV
Allen Gordon Tucker, Huntsville, AL
Nimrod Holt Tucker III, Jacksonville, FL
Olon Clinton Tucker, Grant, AL
* Albert Julian Tully, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Robert Peter Turk, Dayton, OH
Homer Lee Twigg III, Indianapolis, IN
Linda Katherine Tyer, Belfast, ME
Charles Mathison Tyndal, Birmingham, AL
Edward Carraway Tyndal, Columbiana, AL
* Marshall McLean Urist, Birmingham, AL
Kendall Charles Vague, Jasper, AL
Timothy Walter Valk, Boca Raton, FL
* Peter W. Van Hoy, Mountain Brook, AL
Susan Emily Vance-Purvis, Mobile, AL
Kenneth Luckie Vandervoort, Anniston, AL
John Scott VanLoock, Crozet, VA
Rajat Varma, Mechanicsville, VA
* Luis O. Vasconez, Birmingham, AL
Betty Walthall Vaughan, Decatur, AL
Tom Brooks Vaughan III, Saint Paul, MN
Julie Estin Vaughn, Tuscaloosa, AL
Ross Belv Vaughn, Tuscaloosa, AL
* Charles Frederick Veazey, Guntersville, AL
Rodolfo Monedera Veluz, Birmingham, AL
* Frederic Quinby Vroom, Tallahassee, FL
Shilpa Vijay Vyas, Chicago, IL
Barbara Heeter Wade, Pensacola, FL
John Sherer Wade, Fresno, CA
Merle Lindy Wade, Jr., Tampa, FL
Philip Michael Wade, Jr., Gulf Breeze, FL
Ralph Weyman Wadeson, Jr., Chevy Chase, MD
Peter Daniel Waite, Birmingham, AL
* Ken Baker Waites, Birmingham, AL
Matthew Charles Wakefield, Gaithersburg, MD
Frank Bell Waldo, Birmingham, AL
* Edith Z. Waldrop, Birmingham, AL
E. Earl Walker, Florence, AL
George Philips Walker III, Gadsden, AL
James Clinton Walker, Jr., Birmingham, AL
L. G. Walker, Jr., Charlotte, NC
Robert Charles Walker, Decatur, AL
Tom Morrow Walker, Mobile, AL
William Addison Walker, Decatur, AL
John Kenneth Wallace, Dothan, AL
Milton Andrew Wallace, Jr., Mobile, AL
David Guy Walsh, Mobile, AL
Z. Joseph Wanski, Altadena, CA
Glenn Porter Ward, Decatur, AL
John Webb Ward, Atlanta, GA
Thomas Hightower Wareing, Phoenix, AZ
William Spurgeon Warr, Phenix City, AL
Eddie Bernard Warren, Troy, AL
Thomas Larry Warren, Hickory, NC
Thomas Benton Washburn, Jr., Huntsville, AL
Ronald Douglas Waters, Jr., Mobile, AL
D. Shannon Waters-Hwang, Danville, KY
James Morgan Watkins, Campbellsville, KY
* Doris S. Phillips Wayman, Birmingham, AL
Richard Samuel Wayne, San Antonio, TX
George Hiram Weaver, Cordova, AL
Ellen Stammer Weber, Birmingham, AL
Maurice O. Weilbaecher, Jr., Covington, LA
Peter Francis Weinheimer, Tuscaloosa, AL
Paul Carlson Weir, Homewood, AL
William Vickery Weldon, Birmingham, AL
Weston James Welker, Huntsville, AL
Buren Earl Wells, Dothan, AL
D. Christopher Wells, Roanoke, VA
Gretchen Lois Wells, Winston-Salem, NC
* Harold Rudolph Wells, Birmingham, AL
Michael Aubrey Wells, Andalusia, AL
Robert Craig Wesson, Redlands, CA
John Heath West, Savannah, GA
Douglas John Wester, Jr., Huntsville, AL
James Rodman Whatley, Opelika, AL
John Ross Wheat, Northport, AL
Joe Ann Luker Wheeler, Tuscaloosa, AL
Jack Meadow Whetstone, Monroeville, AL
Clarence Donald Whigham, Rosman, NC
Dewey Anderson White, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Jennifer Stott White, Birmingham, AL
Milton Falkner White, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Roy Sidney White, Brent, AL
Thomas Eugene White, Oakland, CA
Gerald Gilmore Whitt, Bradenton, FL
Edward Carrol Whittington, Birmingham, AL
Gilder LeVaughn Wideman, Birmingham, AL
* John Grant Wideman, Vinemont, AL
C. Dent Williams, Jr., Montgomery, AL
Donald Bryant Williams, Birmingham, AL
Jane Newman Williams, Birmingham, AL
John A. Williams, Montgomery, AL
Lisa Howard Williams, Seattle, WA
Robert Huntley Williams, Huntsville, AL
William Jackson Williams, Bethany, OK
Charles Hamilton Williamson, Baton Rouge, LA
David Kelley Williamson, Pelham, AL
Nathan Arthur Williamson, Northport, AL
* Barry Lewis Wilson, Montgomery, AL
H. Andrew Wilson, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Kevin Dwight Wilson, Dallas, TX
* Robert Godfrey Wilson, Shawnee, OK
* Robert Kemp Wilson, Jr., Pensacola, FL
Gregory Scott Windham, Cullman, AL
Charles Shell Wingard, Birmingham, AL
Stanley Blakeley Winslow, Montgomery, AL
James Edwin Wise, Moody, AL
Steven Dwayne Wise, Dothan, AL
* Joel Allen Wissing, Charlotte, NC
C. Douglas Witherspoon, Birmingham, AL
Catherine LeNeave Wood, Montgomery, AL
James Spivey Woodard, Columbus, MS
Chivers R. Woodruff, Jr., Birmingham, AL
John Benjamin Woods, Dothan, AL
Kenneth Theodore Woodsides, Atlanta, GA
* Jack Wool, Montgomery, AL
Erich Wolfe Wouters, Jasper, AL
Christopher Jay Wright, Nashville, TN
Donald A. Wright, Gallatin, TN
* James Gage Wright, Jr., Sylacauga, AL
James Orrall Wright III, Mason City, IA
Patty Walchak Wright, Birmingham, AL
Inas Zaki Yacoub, Columbia, SC
Thomas Hubbard Yancey, Daphne, AL
Donald Eugene Yarbrough, Rochester, MN
Margaret L. Yarbrough, Los Angeles, CA
Randy James Yarbrough, Vestavia, AL
Michael Douglas Yates, Huntsville, AL
* Charles Franklin Yeager, Mobile, AL
Allen Lynwood Yeilding, Birmingham, AL
Newman Manly Yeilding III, Ardmore, PA
Robert Lee Yoder, Jr., Florence, AL
Patty Moore Yoffe, Cambridge, MA
Kenneth Crawford Yohn, Montgomery, AL
Steven Eugene Zachow, Jackson, MS
Nerrin Zaharias, Birmingham, AL
Edward Joseph Zampella, Short Hills, NJ
Robert H. Zax, Louisville, KY
* Herbert Evan Zeiger, Jr., Birmingham, AL
Solomon Glenn Zerden, Savannah, GA
Susan J. Zlotnick-Hale, Huntsville, AL
* George Luey Zorn, Jr., Birmingham, AL
39

From the Archives
By Shane Ivey and Tim L. Pennycuff
1
This issue’s cover story addresses some of the most remarkable
expansions being undertaken by the UASOM. In “From the
Archives,” we look back at the beginnings of the four-year
school, and its periods of greatest growth over the years, to put
our current growth into perspective.
2
3
The UASOM occupied a four-block
campus when its first Birmingham
classes began in 1945. There were 107
students and 58 full-time faculty. It
boasted grants and contracts of only
$8,900 that first year; but by 1959 it
held more than $1 million in grants and
fellowships, and many of its most
prominent facilities, including the Basic
Sciences Building (later the School of
Dentistry), the Smolian Psychiatric
Clinic, Children’s Hospital, and others,
had been built or begun.
The 1960s and 1970s saw a sharp rise
in the School’s clinical and research
prominence and a correspondingly
rapid expansion of its facilities and programs.
Its accomplishments included
the world’s first use of a commercially
available fiberoptic endoscope to observe
internal organs, the nation’s first public,
university-affiliated diabetes hospital,
and the world’s first effective treatment
for a viral disease (herpes simplex
encephalitis). With more and more programs
and students coming to the
Extension Center at Tidwell Hall, the
Extension Center became the four-year
College of General Studies, and in 1969
the Birmingham campus was officially
designated the University of Alabama in
Birmingham (later at Birmingham).
The modern campus took shape.
The 1980s and 1990s saw new treatment
centers, new programs, new
research facilities, and new accomplishments,
as the UASOM and UAB rose to
national and international prestige. In
1983, the UASOM ranked 24th in NIH
research funding. In 1992, U.S. News
and World Report rated UAB the #1 upand-coming
university in the country.
University Hospital featured the country’s
first use of color doppler echocardiograph.
In 1996, three UAB faculty were
named among the top 10 AIDS
researchers in the country; three years
later, UAB researchers discovered the origin
of HIV-1, and the AIDS Vaccine
Evaluation Unit became the first clinic to
enter Phase III trials of an AIDS vaccine.
By 2000, UAB’s grants and contracts
exceeded $300 million; in 2002 it
ranked 16th nationwide in NIH funding,
and its economic impact on the
community was more than $2.5 billion.
Into the 2000s, the UASOM and
UAB look forward to another period of
tremendous growth, with an eye toward
reaching the top 10 in NIH funding by
2010. With the new facilities and hightech
infrastructure being built today, we
look forward to a future with many
more “firsts,” an ever greater impact on
Alabama, and a crucial role in advancing
the science and practice of medicine.
4
1. Aerial view of the Hillman Hospital Complex, circa 1935. Looking west, we see what would
eventually become the UAB campus. The three buildings at center are now named the Kracke
Building, New Hillman, and Old Hillman.
2. Aerial view of the Medical Center looking southeast, circa 1957. The original four blocks
of the Medical Center included University Hospital, the Medical and Dental Basic Sciences
Building and Dental Clinic (now the School of Dentistry Building), the V.A. Hospital, and the
Crippled Children’s Hospital (now the site of the Spain-Wallace Building).
3. Aerial view of the growing Medical Center looking southwest, circa 1963. This view of the
Medical Center, now occupying more than 10 blocks, shows its remarkable growth in a mere
decade. Notice, bottom left, the 20th Street miniature golf course—the site now occupied by
UAB’s Administration Building.
4. Aerial view of the Medical Center looking southeast, circa 1992. Here we see the tremendous
growth of the Academic Health Center in the nearly 50 years since the medical school
moved to Birmingham.
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UASOM Annual Fund Launches
“The Importance of You” Campaign
What does the
Annual Fund do for the School?
• provides financial support (academic and
need-based)
• provides funding for classroom and laboratory
technology
• allows us to recruit the best and brightest students
• allows us to recruit and retain highly skilled faculty
You are the key
to the Annual Fund.
Before you add this magazine to your
office collection, take two minutes and
write a check payable to the School of
Medicine Annual Fund and return it
in the attached envelope. Your gift,
“The UASOM owes our success to alumni
like you who dedicate themselves to
attaining excellence in the profession and
practice of medicine.”
regardless of the amount, will make a
difference. All gifts are tax-deductible.
William B. Deal, M.D.
Vice President and Dean
For online gifts, go to [www.uab.edu/supportmedicine].
For more information, contact Lou Herring at (205) 975-6629.
The
IMPORTANCE OF
YOU

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION SCHEDULE
February 20–21, 2003
“Progress in Ob/Gyn”; sponsored by the UAB Department of Ob/Gyn;
Wynfrey Hotel, Birmingham; 14.25 CME credits.
February 22–23, 2003
“31st Annual Anesthesiology Review Course”; sponsored by the
UAB Department of Anesthesiology; Wynfrey Hotel, Birmingham;
10 CME credits.
February 2–April 2, 2004
“The Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine”; sponsored by the
UAB Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, the
Instituto A. Von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
(IMT), and the IAMAT Foundation; Peru; 125 CME credits.
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